Dracula pg 37

"I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things other than buissness in your letters. It will doubtless please your friends to know that you are well, and that you look foward to getting home to them. Is it not so?" As he spoke he handed me three sheets of note-paper and three envelopes. They were all of the thinest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red under-lip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it."


The author uses imadry to set the dark mood of this passage. He makes sure to perfectly descrive the cainine teeth so that you can see count Dracula smiling at you with them. And the use of the vivid diction helps to enhance the imadry. "Red under-lip" is used to enhance the image of blood by using red to describe it instead of pink. This passage also helps the dark mysterious mood keep going because the author keeps coming to conclusions about Count Dracula. The more he realizes, the scarier it becomes. The diction is very vivid and harsh using alot of harsh sounding letters like p's and t's. This helps to create that harsh and scary tone.