In The Fall of the House of Usher, there’s an abundant amount of foreshadowing for both the literal house’s and the family line’s fall. The manor itself is described as old, old enough for “minute fungi [to] overspread the whole exterior”, aged finely enough to cause “[great] discoloration” yet not old enough to crumble into something completely unsupportable (Poe, ). However it is noted, even by the narrator himself, that there was “a barely perceptible fissure, which, extend[ed] from the roof of the building in front [and] made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction” (). The shaky, not-to-be trusted but somehow ‘stable’ structure makes even the narrator feel unease, and even the mention of such a crack foreshadows, in a way, how it was
