Eventually the narrator of "Pit and Pendulum" sleeps and when he wakes, another pitcher and loaf has been left. He drinks and thinks the water must have been drugged because he falls into a deathlike sleep. When he wakes yet again, the cell is visible from alight coming from somewhere. He can now seethe full size of the cell. It is much smaller than he imagined from his pacing. He realizes he must have counted the room twice over,
going back the way he’d come after his fainting spell. The cell is also not so irregular ashed imagined. The alcoves and juttings that he’d felt must have been enlarged by his sensory deprivation. The walls are hideously decorated with menacing figures.
The transformation of the light in the cell implies a presence outsideand some kind of vent or entrance, or at least some kind of source –Share with your friends: