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In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the narrator visits his longtime childhood friend to try and help him through a rough time in his life. Roderick Usher’s sister was dying and Roderick was in no state to cope with her death on his own. ... The House of Usher, a mansion that seems to be somewhat enchanted, was a longtime coming to its demise, mainly due to the actions of the family members that took place over many generations.
When the narrator first sees the House of Usher, he finds it to be a terrifying sight but cannot pinpoint why the house is so gloomy. ... In the narrator’s description of the house, he uses lifelike characteristics, giving the house its own persona. ... Here, the narrator is setting up what is to come in the House of Usher. Even the peasants who lived around the location of the mansion saw the correlation between the estate and the family as the “’House of Usher’—an appellation which seemed to include, in the minds of the peasantry who used it, both the family and the family mansion” (232).
The House of Usher is so terrible because of what had taken place there over the
years. The narrator tells us of the history of the Usher family:
“I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had been noted, time out of mind, for a peculiar sensibility of temperament, displaying itself, through long ages, in many works of exalted art, and manifested of late, in repeated deeds of munificent yet unobtrusive charity, as well as in a passionate devotion to the intricacies, perhaps even more than to the orthodox and easily recognizable beauties, of musical science.
Approximate Word count = 1368
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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