The Fall House Of The Usher Analysis

Edgar Allan Poe explains that on a dark, gloomy day the narrator is visiting his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, because Roderick has been ill, but when the narrator arrived he saw that the house is rather odd and unusual. Madeline, Roderick’s sister, is also ill and suddenly dies from a strange disease, making the narrator believe that the house has something to do with both of their illnesses. With the help of the narrator, Roderick buries his sister beneath the house and the narrator continues to stay at the Usher’s house to comfort Roderick because he is becoming more ill. While reading stories one night with Roderick, they notice a weird gas outside of the window and Roderick confesses that he has been hearing weird noises for a few …show more content…
Madeline may have never existed to begin with because she appeared very so often and when she did nothing was hardly said. Poe states “While he spoke, the lady Madeline (for so was she called) passed through a remote portion of the apartment, and without having noticed my presence, disappeared” (876). When Roderick wrote the letter to the narrator, he told him that he was suffering from fears and nervousness, which maybe the reason he never left home causing him to be isolated (Poe872-73). Roderick may be in fear of his sister coming back to haunt him, which is why he is suffering and his illness is getting worse. Madeline may have had supernatural powers because when she appears at the end of the story, the house crumbles into the tarn as soon as Roderick is killed (Poe 884). As Roderick and the narrator were reading the story everything started to happen to them and the house, therefore Madeline may have just been a hoax all