the signal man

The signal man There was something remarkable in his manner of doing so, though I could not have said for my life what. But I know it was remarkable enough to attract my notice, even though his figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so stepped in the glow of an angry sunset that i had shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all.This extract, close to the beginning of the story, has many connotations of mystery and of sinister feelings. The sunset is personified and is given the emotion of ‘angry’ adding to the negative feeling of the evening. This is also pathetic fallacy to use weather and surroundings to resemble feelings felt by the humans. Another use of patheic fallacy in this extract is ‘down in the deep trench’. Deep trenches naturally fills the reader with fear, giving implications of being trapped and caged in something you cannot escape, which gives us more of a sense of fear when the man tries to go down to the voice. All of this point’s eluded to the fact that this ‘foreshortened’ and ‘shadowed’ figure may not be as human as first implied. Haloa! Below there! This sets an eerie tone for this story straight away, making the reader want to know who the man is shouting at, and starting at once with a line that captures the readers’ attention. This is also quite an odd way of speaking- instead of saying ‘hello’ the man says ‘Haloa’ which is different and adds to the mystery. The monstrous thought came into my mind as I pursued the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man. I have speculated since, whether there may have been infection in his mind. The man ‘pursues’ the fixed eyes as if it is a challenge to do this, adding to the underline theme or mystery and curiosity. ‘saturnine’ meaning dark and mysterious, is adding to the feeling that this may not actually be a human, but a spirit and this is backed up by the following phrase. After that, saying that he has