Response 7 (The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether)

Having read a couple of Edgar Allan Poe’s work before I knew this story was going to be interesting. I had already imagined there would be a surprising turn of events towards the end of the book while reading the first page. Out of the all of the books and readings we did so far this would have to be my favorite so far, Frankenstein would be a close second. While eating at the dinner table, the nameless narrator talks to and observes a couple of the people eating besides him. At that point I realized that something was off about these people, or maybe I was trying really hard to find subtle clues as to what this surprising twist that would come later might be. Even before all of that, when Monsieur Maillard says that he has changed the way the mental house works it was suspicious.  When the woman who claimed that a patient of the same name used to take her clothes off actually took her clothes off, that’s when I realized what was going on. He also tried to justify some of the acts done by the people at the dinner tale by saying that they were only as sane as him. I think the reason why I liked this story more than the others is because it seemed more “modern” or more “realistic”, which gives it a more frightening tone to it.