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The Masque of the Red Death
 * and, while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was observed that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused reverie or meditation.**

This clock, I believe is a symbol in this story. This particular symbol is that the clock, in all of its oddness and akwardness, symbolizes the time when all the attendees will die from the Red Death. Every time it chimes its creepy chime, it is a signal to the people that they're going to die soon, even if they don't know it yet. But the people's reactions to the clock act almost as if they know that their time is coming. In the sentence I picked, it describes the people as becoming uneasy and nervous. This all ties together when the killer with the masque on (who has the Red Death) comes to kill all the people there. 1197301112