Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. how does the first-person point of view affect “the pit and the pendulum”? it enables the reader to learn more about the inquisition, the political power that has unjustly imprisoned the narrator. it the reader try to find a way out for the narrator from a number of different angles. it explicitly describes the narrator's joy when he is saved by the french general at the end. because it shows only what the narrator knows at any given point, it increases suspense and tension.