What in the text of the boarded window indicates the beliefs and values of the author?

Transcript of Critical Analysis1) What in the text explains what the main character is thinking? the way the author describes his emotions at the time of finding out she is dead, then finding out shes alive and then dead again. 
2) What in the text might be symbolic of underlying feelings or thoughts? the general setting, the whole almost being buried alive thing, maybe the author has a fear of being buried alive. 
3) What in the text depends on irrational fears or beliefs?Again, being buried alive. Murlock was astonished when he saw his wife was alive, only to be killed by a panthe