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The disturbing glow of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems come from all of the detail and symbolism that goes into them. His imagination is far beyond what most authors could ever fathom. Every thought and every word that is placed in a sentence adds to the overall outcome of the story. The main character in the story, Prince Prospero, throws a party during the plague; unfortunately death comes into his home and takes the lives of everyone there. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Poe uses symbolism through the colors of the rooms, the clock that counts down time, and the characters at the ball in order to discuss man’s eventual appointment with death. At the ball, the castle has seven arranged rooms that each has a different color and have all been decorated according to the Prince’s taste (Wolfgang 521). These colors start at blue and progress to purple, to green, then orange, to white, next violet and finally to black (Poe 269). All of these colors, in this particular order, are said to represent the evolution of a man’s life (“Overview,” AVL). None of the rooms have very much lighting. In each room there is a fire burning behind a colored window that illuminates that certain color throughout the ent