Edgar Allan Poes The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a story about a man who is an old friend of the narrator and he is dying. During the journey to the house and while at the house, the narrator has somewhat of a gloomy look on things. ... Edgar Allan Poe portrays some of his life events through the narrator and through what the narrator observes in the story. ... "(Thompson 870) The settings, house, and characters are parallels to events, moods, and people in Edgar Allan Poe’s life. ... For example, the first line of the story is “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. ... It is known that Edgar Allan Poe was on drugs. ... The House of Usher is described to be run down. In the story, Poe writes that the house is “that of an excessive antiquity.” The details of the house are even drearier: “discoloration of ages” and “minute fungi.