The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the appennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of mrs. radcliffe. to all appearance it had been temporarily and very lately abandoned. we established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments. it lay in a remote turret of the building. which statement best describes the effect of the narration on the story?

The narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting.

Explanation:

The statement from this excerpt of "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe, that best describes the effect of the narration on the story is the narration establishes a forsaken, foreboding setting. The description of the mysterious chateau in a remote and mountainous place where the short story takes place, makes us feel that something ominous and bad is going to happen. It is a Gothic setting with candlelight and strange paintings.

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