“Research shows that individuals may be more likely to engage in health-risk behaviors when in the presence of others people also engaged in these behaviors” (quoted in Varela). Poe writes stories by linking the connections of spirit and matter to the center of the soul, resulting in his story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” being illustrated as evil. “The relationship between stress and alcohol use is complicated by a multitude of alcohol-related factors, such as drinking history, drinking level and patterns, or when alcohol was accessible in relation to the experience of stress, as well as by stress-related factors, such as type, chronicity, predictability and controllability which intersect with a number of biological variables linked to genetics, age and sex” (cited in Becker, for example, according to Clarke, Uhart, and Wand, “there are clear individual differences in perceptual sensitivity and reactivity to stress and alcohol, and clinical and preclinical evidence indicates that). Genetic factors help shape the nature of the relationship between stress and alcohol "drinking" (quoted in Becker). In other words, drinking and stress go hand in hand, which could change. the way people behave and think. When Poe's wife got sick and later died, it really took Poe to the bottom where he couldn't live without her and he was previously an alcoholic, but