Lone Curtained Window

The windows were a big mystery in the story. Zann is always hiding things and being suspicious. Even when the narrator finally finds out what's happening, the opportunity is destroyed. When the narrator does look out the window, something doesn't match up. You can tell Zann is hiding things when he starts being suspicious and nervous. A quote from the short story is “As he did this he further demonstrated his eccentricity by casting a startled glance toward the lone curtained window, as if fearful of some intruder- a glance doubly absurd, since the garret stood high and inaccessible above all the adjacent roofs, this window being the only point on the steep street, as the concierge had told me, from which one could see over the wall at the

In the short story, “The Music Of Eric Zann” it says, “I moved toward the window and would have drawn aside the nondescript curtains, when with a frightened rage even greater than before the dumb lodger was upon me again; this time motioning with his head toward the door as he nervously strove to drag me thither with both hands” (Lovecraft pg. 18). The. This proves that the window is of importance to Zann, and whatever's outside must be kept hidden. When Zann is finally telling us what's happening and what's behind the window, the wind comes crashing through and destroys the chances. “Subsequently he seemed to be satisfied, and crossing to a chair by the table wrote a brief note, handed it to me, and returned to the table, where he began to write rapidly and incessantly. The note implored me, in the name of my own curiosity, to wait where I was while he prepared a full account in German of all the marvels and terrors which best served him. I waited, and the dumb mans pencil flew” (Lovecraft pg. 20). The syllable of the syllable. This shows that the only thing that could explain what was happening was in the hands of Zann and those