What Is The Symbolism In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

The story “The Fall of the House of Usher” tells how two childhood friends the narrator and Roderick Usher after many years Roderick writes to the narrator and ask for help because of his illness that runs through his family. The mansion that Roderick lives in has been there for generations that has been passed down. The narrator is freaked out by the house because of the noises from the wind and the appearance of the mansion. Roderick’s illness is making him go insane as well as his sister Madeline Usher. As time went Madeline fainted and Roderick thought she had passed away so he made her the burial as every other family member. An old friend, Roderick Usher, asked me to come visit right away. He was ill. I hadn't seen Usher in a long …show more content…
At last Roderick Usher lay still. (Paragraph 7)
If Roderick tried to kill Madeline he would only drive himself insane, so when he buried her, he thought she was dead. Many things symbolizes the story, but the house makes a difference because the house is the main key to everything that is happening or causing to Roderick and the narrator as well as his sister. At the end when the narrator escapes the house, he sees the house cracking and begins to disappear. So the house was only chasing to Roderick and his sister. At last Roderick Usher lay still. I fled from that house. The storm outside was wild. For an instant, the night flashed bright with lightning. I saw the walls of the mansion split along the zigzag crack.
Then, the dark moat swallowed the House of Usher.(Paragraph 8) I learned that Roderick and the narrator as old friends were coming together until the death of his sister Madeline and that is driving Roderick insane. The narrator was becoming feared of the house because of the causes that are occurring. The websites helped me understand what really happened because it gave more detail and described the details more