The Monkey's Paw Foreshadowing

I walked into a pitch dark room. I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face. When, I walked in a tiny bit. I just didn’t know what to do now. I couldn’t see anything around me. Who knows, I could be walking on decaying corpse right this instance. I started to walk in, trying the hold all of my wits together. Then, I heard something scurrying along the wall. It was no mouse. It sounded like a 100 pound human. Then, something creaked. I turned around then, I felt a hand on my shoulder as the other one was on my mouth... The setting in this short passage leaves us with a feeling of not knowing about what is going to happen next. Or what that creature was. The Monkey’s Paw uses different scenarios to foreshadow what is going to happen. In the Monkey’s Paw, they use the setting to put us on edge.
In the story, “The talisman was in its place, ..... and he caught his breath as he found that he had lost the direction of the door.” This shows us that something is going to happen in the dark when they least expect it. When, it is dark we have trouble seeing. So, when we hear the tiniest creak we freak out because we can’t see what is there. If it was in daylight we wouldn’t worry as much because we can see all around us. For example, he went down in the darkness, and felt his way to the parlor, and then to the mantelpiece. He couldn’t see what was going on so it delayed time for him to get to the paw. Eventually, he tried to find it again when the monster came back. This creates suspense because the monster is about ready to come in and do something to the