ss wife. Allan resented Poe from the beginning and was never to let him forget he was a child of charity. Poe in return was never to show Mr. Allan any gratitude for the small things he did for him.
             The battle between these two raged on until Mrs. Allan's death. At times Allan made Poe's life a living hell. Mr. Allan sent Poe away to school with no funds to survive on. Poe in turn ran up high gambling and drinking debts expecting Mr. Allan to pay them. These behaviors only strengthen Mr. Allan's dislike of this child. Poe learned of Mr. Allan's infidelities and believed that it helped to lead to Mrs. Allan's failing health. This knowledge and Mrs. Allan health only added to Poe's dislike for Mr. Allan. His anger toward him feaster and grew like the worm of death eating at him on the inside. To Poe his foster father came to represent broken trust.
             Mrs. Allan was always the buffer between the two. The strain this place on her only seems to hasten her death. Mr. Allan made to deathbed promises to Mrs. Allan, one was not to bury her before Edgar could see her and the other was not to abandon him. Mr. Allan was to keep neither of these promises (Lindsay Pg 57). One is not sure if Allan buried his wife before Poe's return was another act of his hatred for Poe or not. One does know this act only intensified Poe's hat for Mr. Allan.
             Mr. Allan remarried after Mr. Allan's death and Poe wrote of his happiest day and his happiest hour. This seemed ironic knowing the feelings Poe had for Mr. Allan. Poe is now in hope that Mr. Allan will torment and pour his venom on someone other than himself now that his has a new family. With Mr. Allan's marriage Poe finds some peace in the fact that he now holds no hope for a future, or inheritance, or love from Mr. Allan. Poe wrote many poems of burying men alive one might think these came for the hate he held for his two fathers. ...