How does the writer use language to create suspense in The Red Room :: English Literature

How does the writer use language to create suspense in The Red RoomThe Red Room is about a man who is staying at an sometime(a) house with ahaunted room, which he is going to spend the night in. He is unwillingto listen to the warnings of the tierce elderly occupants of the housewho be sure that the room is haunted. The story starts with the manspeaking and being very confident about staying in the room and how altogether a tangible ghost will frighten him he is saying that nothing canhurt him unless it is solid or touchable which is not what ghosts arelike. So he is also saying that ghosts do not exist. He tries to backup this by saying that he has lived for eight and twenty eld andnever seen a ghost however the old woman says that he has neverstayed in a house like this. This creates more suspense because the contributor want to know what the house is like and why it is haunted andwhat the inhabitants have experienced to support their beliefs in aparanormal housemate.To mak e the story more mysterious none of the characters is named. Thethree old people are described, as though they are unhealthy anddecaying so they look like ghosts in coincidence to the narrator. Thenarrator then wants to go to the room, so he asks the elderly peopleif they would guide him there but they just ignore him. He sounds very classical and superior but also very arrogant and the old peopledo not answer him so he repeats the request a miniscule louder and theyjust tell him where he can find the candle and say he must go alone.Then the old woman says this night of all(a) nights which again createsmore tension because what did happen on this night? They give himdirections to the room and he draw a blanks them and heads for the room butjust before he leave the old man says its of your choosing the oldman is saying that when the narrator finds what ever is in the roomdont come to them saying we was pushed you into it.The writer goes on to set the scene for the journey to the r oom.Portraying it as a chilly echoing passage, which sounds verythreatening and menacing. He talks about the three old pensioners thatoccupy the castle coming from an age where there was no science andthe existence of omens and witches were creditable. As he goes down