“According to research, individuals are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors when they are in the presence of others who are also engaging in those behaviors” (qtd . in Varella). Poe writes stories by connecting with the connections of mind and matter at the core of the soul, which causes his story, "The Barrel of Amontillado", to be illustrated as evil. “The relationship between stress and alcohol consumption is complicated by a number of alcohol-related factors such as drinking history, level and pattern of drinking, or the timing of accessibility to alcohol in relation to the experience of stress, as well as by stress-related factors such as type, chronicity, predictability, and controllability that intersect with a number of biological variables in genetics, age, and sex” (qtd. in Becker). For example, according to Clarke, Uhart and Wand “there are clear individual differences in sensitivity, perception and reactivity to stress and alcohol, and both clinical and preclinical evidence indicates that genetic factors help shape the nature of the relationship between stress and alcohol". drink” (qtd. in Becker). In other words, alcohol and depressive stress actually go hand in hand, which could change the way people behave and think. When Poe's wife fell ill and later died, Poe really fell into the deep end, he couldn't live without her and was previously an alcoholic but