Roderick Meher Columbia Usher

Roderick Usher, Madeline usher, and the narrator are three characters that change over the course of the story. As the story continues Roderick slowly starts to change. Mentally, Rodrick does a complete 360 in how he views things. Madeline was very quiet and didn’t have a lot to say. The narrator is an enigmatic character. He only exists in relation to the Ushers, and that relation is primarily as an outsider. Roderick is tormented by his own fear and his own admission. He doesn’t fear any specific thing, besides his fears themselves. And one day he makes the conclusion that he will die. Roderick is a sick man who writes to his friend to come and help him be less depressed, gloomy, and hypochondriacal. He claims that the house was the very dark and depressing and as if the house had a soul itself. When Rodrick finds out that no one leaves this house alive is when things started getting weird. Roderick believes that he and his twin share a special connection, one that others would not understand. He feels like that because the two know what they are thinking/going to do. That’s when Roderick started to lose his mind. Roderick gets even weirder after Madeline's death; he believed he could hear the sounds of her trying to break out of her tomb. He starts to be certain that he cannot …show more content…
We don’t know much about him. When the narrator first arrives at the house, he says several times that the ushers house was very isolated and it was closed-off nature. The narrator is on the outside of whatever weird relationship the Ushers' share. He is also on the outside of the spooky goings-on inside the house. For example, she doesn’t even notice or acknowledge the narrator’s appearance. He doesn’t even really participate in the story. He is unable to affect the Usher in any way except when he tries to help the man of his depression. The narrator watches patiently as the story unfold before his