The effect is to create reader sympathy for the narrator of the story.
Why is this sympathy created?
- The reader can see that the narrator is being condemned for something he has done.
- The narrator is nervous and afraid of what he will have to face.
- However, the reader does not know what crime the narrator committed and only has access to the narrator's feelings of fear and dread.
This creates sympathy between the reader and the narrator, as the reader sympathizes with the feeling of fear, as he does not know if he deserves this punishment.
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