He describes how he deals with the body, “I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs,” (76) the tone of this statement is bone-chilling. Poe uses “and” to connect the different actions to create a choppy sentence as it would sound much different to say “I chopped of the head, arms, and legs”. Instead, the drawn out sentence mimics the drawn own process of the brutal dismemberment. The narrator hides the man’s body beneath the floor boards of the man’s bedroom, bragging that he pulled it off “so cunningly” (77). The paragraph ends with the narrator laughing, showing that he feels no remorse or guilt for what he had just