The Oval Potrait

In this story it seemed to me the narrator was a vampire trying to resist the urge to hunt, his prey being young women. Maybe part of this is an influence from Twilight and I misunderstood, but then I also felt a similar thread in the Fall of the House of Usher the Roderick would not like to and avoids preying on the living, though he didn’t seem to know he was a vampire. So what struck me was the seeming distaste from the narrator for what he was. I mentioned tales of vampires that sucked the emotions from their victims in an earlier post of mine. It seemed to me this is somewhat a reflection of this, while painting his bride the man sucked the vitality from her and the painting gained it.