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Kristen Williams
English 1302
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the house that Usher” lives in is full of insanity. The characters with in the story that resemble these acts are Roderick and Madeline Usher. These two characters are siblings whom end the final chapter of the Usher family. ... As he rides in on the long driveway to the house of Usher, he feels the home itself relates to the Usher race. As the home deteriorates and crumbles, the Usher family itself is doing the same. ... The narrator feels only one sense by the house’s walls, darkness. ...
Poe uses the narrator to show the reader the opinion and realization of the characters and the house. ... Poe symbolizes that very importance of the narrator by having him in the story to interpret to the readers what exactly is happening in “The House of Usher”.
Better stated by Raymond Benoit, “Precisely the delusion that the narrator exhibits in his “contemplation” of the House of Usher. “What was it”, asks the narrator, “That so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?” The narrator cannot let go of sensory data as he tries to answer that question; he looks beyond himself to contemplate and catalogue the house and its surroundings in repeatedly frustrated and notably ironic effects to find the focus of his “utter depression of soul” .
Approximate Word count = 1000
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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