THE FEAR IN THE HOUSE OF USHER

A detailed Summary of THE FEAR IN THE HOUSE OF USHER

In the story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar

Allen Poe, setting is used to portray many different

things. Poe uses setting to suggest ideas, effects,

and images. It creates a mood and foreshadows future

events. Poe communicates facts about the characters

through symbols throughout the setting. In the story

the narrator is going to the House of Usher to comfort

his friend, Roderick Usher who has fallen into a

mental depression. These negative influences

ultimately lead to death in the end. The story

revolves around the effects of fear and how the denial

of our fears can lead to madness. #

The narrator is immediately skittish about the house

As he approaches the house, "with the first glimpse of

the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded

my spirit."(Poe 21) The entire opening scene was

gloomy as if he'd stepped into blackness. He

describes the house as having "vacant eye-like windows

upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of

decayed trees with an utterdepression of soul which I

can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than

to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium" (Poe

curve". (Poe 25) It was as if he was

Ultimately the story shows us that we must recognize

moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver."

who also resided in the mansion, although the narrator

him for the sake of excitement and adventure.

Approximate Word count = 1120
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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