Answer:
To allow the reader to connect to the story and to gain the reader's attention.
Explanation:
On my opinion, I'd rewrite it as,
"The spotlight of ambition"
or
"Ray of aspiration"
Yes is justificable due to the information and the traumatic experience from part of the people around it
Poe's narrator descends into madness early on in the story and from then on, he experiences psychological turbulence that results in the murder of his wife and his own imprisonment for life.
