The feeling is depressingly dark,but also in this specific story it is mystical. “He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part, for no one had ever known him to neither smile nor speak a needless word.” The authors words show how deep Mr. Murlock , as well as the whole story was. The statements show a very taint photo of everything that had happened. The lack of Speech, sometimes show just as much As actual words will. This is because the reader is left wondering during more about what is going on as the story. progresses.