Read the excerpt from “The Oval Portrait,” by Edgar Allan Poe. The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe. To all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. It lay in a remote turret of the building. Which statement best describes the effect of the narration on the story? The narration establishes an historically significant setting. The narration establishes a lavish, impressive setting. The narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting. The narration establishes a dangerous, condemned setting.

Salutations my good fellow! It has been a long time since I read "The Oval Portrait", but I believe if memory serves me correctly that it is C: The Narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting, due to the author describing it as abandoned, and least sumptuously furnished (meaning run down). I hope that this helps you, and please reply with how you did, so I can see if my answer is right and hopefully give another person the correct answer if the question is ever asked again.

vaduz vaduz · Answer 2 · 2021-10-11T05:54:48+02:00

The statement that the narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting best describes the effect of the narration on the story.

The short story "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allen Poe is a gothic story that revolves around a disturbing portrait. The story deals with the themes of art and its relation with life, and how fatal it can be for those obsessed with it.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who had to spend the night in an abandoned ch a tea u.
It was there that he became fascinated by one of the portraits that he found there, that of a woman and her relationship with her husband, the painter.
The painting affected the narrator in ways he cannot explain, and while going through the description of the paintings in the room, he became so fascinated by the particular portrait.
Through the book, he came to know of the painter's sole interest in his own portrait of his wife that he failed to care about his real wife.

This shift in interest from his wife to the portrait seemed to have an undesirable effect on the wife's well-being as if the portrait is seeping the life out of the real person.

The way the unnamed narrator describes his setting and that of the portraits in the room shows how the place seems to have some sort of 'outer world' sensation. It also established a sense of a forsaken, even foreboding setting that leaves the readers on edge. Thus, the correct answer is the third option.

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