As the story progresses , the narrator attempts to analyze his situation,"to deduce [his] real condition,"but he has little information from which to reason . His limitation creat a chilling my stery: what danger are hidden in the narrator's cell? And where are they? The narrator's answer emerge slowly and pianfully as he fades in and out of sleep and a drug-induced stupor,suffering intense torment as he struggles against his growing fear of the unknow.