Describe the portrait that the narrator saw in the room.
In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Oval Portrait” suddenly notices a portrait in a corner ofthe room when he tries to adjust the candelabrum. It is a portrait of a girl who is in thethreshold of womanhood. The painting has overwhelming effect on the narrator whoimpulsively feels the need to close his eyes to wonder what it is about the image that hefinds so startling. The picture is in an oval frame. It is a “vignette” that depicts the headand shoulders of a young woman. The oval frame is...