Edgar Allan Poe Lovers, Please Help

I’m trying to educate myself in the classics. This is one I don’t get.

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It took forever. I’m supposed to read a short story every week. I figured, How hard could it be? It’s a short story. But this thing took me all week.

Why?

Well, first of all because of my attitude. I had a bad attitude, made up of…