I am actually glad that I was given this assignment because I read a short story of his called “ The Oval Portrait,” and come to think about it, it was about a man looking at a portrait of a beautiful woman, and he got so into it that he almost thought that she was real. So what I think is that it was based on his wife, or his cousin. So, now that I read that I know that the lady in the portrait was probably his wife, or his cousin, Virginia. And the man looking at the portrait and remembering it was probably actually him. But, I may be wrong, maybe me thinking this is completely wrong, who knows.

In1835 Edgar Allan Poe brought his cousin Virginia and his aunt Maria to Richmond, in which he started to work with Thomas Willis White at the Southern Litterary Messenger. During this

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