H. G. Wells uses the description of location to build atmosphere by splitting the locations into three significant sections, the housekeepers room, where he starts the story, the passages and staircases, the narrator travels through on his journey to the red room, and then the red room itself where the narrator drives himself crazy due to the unnatural silence, the creeping presence of darkness and the inexplicable presence of undiluted fear itself. This splitting up …showed first 75 words of 905 total…

…showed last 75 words of 905 total…is light and the old people have changed and reveal themselves to be just old people not deformed monsters. Now the young man has had experience of fear, and understands what it can do to you, he is accepted as a friend. The learning experience has given him a rite of passage and as he is now a changed person. This change makes the whole story make sense and makes the characters feel more approachable.