FREE ESSAY ON FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EGAR ALLEN POE

FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER BY EGAR ALLEN POE

Will Lewis 
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
The story starts out with the narrator riding up to an old and gloomy house. He stresses
that the overall persona of the house is very eerie. The reason he is at this house is
because he received a letter from an old friend by the name of Roderick Usher. Roderick
and the narrator were intimate friend at a young age but they had not spoken to each
other in several years. The narrator examined the house for a great time as he rode
toward the house, he noticed that the house had been severely neglected over time. That
the house's beautiful woodwork and Gothic type of architecture have not been maintenance
to any degree since he had last seen it.
When he arrived at the home the servant who took his hoarse and directed him to the room
that Mr. Usher was in greeted him. Inside the house was also very ornate, but it to had
also been left alone for to long. The entire house had a gloomy atmosphere that would put
a chill down most people's spines. When he entered the room his friend was staying in he
was warmly welcomed. He could not believe the changes that his dear childhood friend had
endured.
Roderick was very ill for he was not able to do many things. He could only listen to
certain types of sounds, eat certain foods, and he could only look at certain things.
Together they to loved to read books of Gothic natures that only added to the ora of the
house. Usher had a great collection of books but his favorite was the manual of the
forgotten church. 
Roderick's sister was also very ill with something that was never diagnosed. In the first
few days of the narrator's visit Ethelred died. She was put into a casket and then the
two men carried her to a vault that was below the narrator's room. Several night later
the men noticed sound coming from the vault and went down to investigate. They began to
read to each other again, but Roderick paid no attention. He seamed to be communicating
with his dead twin sister through the thick metal door. As it turns out that Ethelred was
alive the whole time. 
As this went on, weird thing began to happen in the house. The narrator became frightened
and ran out of the house. Almost as soon as he got out the house fell right to the
ground. It fell apart at a crack the ran from the roof to the cellar.