The use of foreshadowing in this text is used to retain the reader stimulated and to evade a possible disappointment. At the beginning, the narrator expresses his/her feelings when going back to Aunt Gertrude's house. It appears that the atmosphere is very nice because it is associated to a fairy tale but then, the mood changes and the reader gets the impression that something wrong is going to happen. The mentioning of the ´fairy tale´ could be associated with the good gesture Gertrude had with the orphans and the change of mood with the secret about to be discovered.
