Euroglaze trade customers are seeing returns on the company’s ongoing marketing investment, with leads generated now being distributed directly to them. The Red Death symbolizes the inevitability of death. Although there is no specific disease using the exact symptoms described in the story, critics believe the disease's description has aspects of tuberculosis, an illness which killed a lot of all-around Poe. It also brings forth memories in the Black Death which depopulated high of Europe in the Middle Ages.