The young man locked in the dark, gloomy room was named Jarette. He was a young, dark complected man with brown hair and a smooth shaven face. The two physicians, Harper and Mancher were in on a joke, in a way of a punishment, for Jarette. Mancher agreed to play as a corpse in the room where Jarette was locked in. Throughout the night Jarette had done little actions to keep himself preoccupied. He took out his book in the first few moments he arrived in the room and read a chapter before putting it away. Then proceeding to the windows, opened the shutters as trying to look out and get as much light as possible. With the room being in the rear of the building facing a high rock of a hill there was no streetlight or moonlight possible to reach the barred windows. Jarette had paced around the dark room until he finally set in an arm- chair. By the way the

The cosmic irony in part five is that all that was intended was a little bet played as a joke but turned out to be much worse outcome, murder. It was an unthinkable way of playing a joke, which was a complete reversal in plans. After departing Europe, Helberson and Harper met seven years later in New York in Madison Square. A man had been observing them for some time. The man approached Helberson and Harper and said,” When you have killed a man by coming to life, it is best to change clothes with him, and at the first opportunity make a break for liberty.” With that strange man’s statement Helberson and Harper were in shock. They couldn’t believe who it was. Both men eager to know what all had happened and what had happened to Jarette quickly after the man had introduced himself. He explained that he would rise from the table acting as the corpse had come to life. By doing so he mentioned that Jarette took it more serious than expected and he had to kill and switch the place of Jarette. I’m not sure if the stranger that met Helberson and Harper in New York was. It could have been Jarette disguised as Mancher because that’s what he said people call him. He also explained the struggle between him and Jarette the night in that room. In another way it could have been Jarette disguised as Mancher. He could have switched clothes that night, as was said at the beginning of part five, and referred himself to be Mancher. It was said that they could be mistaken as twin brothers at the beginning of the story. And also at the end the stranger had said,” A very good profession—very good indeed” and Jarette’s favorite thing to do was gamble. I am a little confused on who the stranger was but maybe that was the way Bierce meant the story to end in a mind-mesmerizing fashion.

The San Francisco setting contributes to the tone of the story because of it big buildings, narrow streets, it’s darkness at night only lit by lanterns. Those factors give off a sort of dark, gothic motif that resemb

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