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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER SUMMARY CRACK

“What must have been a dream”“Worked up imagination”After Madeline’s death he felt “influenced” by Rodericks “wild, fantastic, yet impressive superstitions” “Consciousness of my rapid superstition”“Strange fancy”“A vivid flow of sensations”“Shadowy fancies” “Influenced”- as if no choice but to be affected Shadowy fancies connote mystery, indistictivenessdenial of happenings, convoluted sentences to articulate feelings of the unnaturalness (story’s start)Portrays unreliability as a character. He was becoming a “scrutinizing observer” and becoming overtly panicked, “phantasmagoric,” “superstitious” and his “strange fancy” kept growing in a span of a couple days highlight the suffering of Rodrick and his sister who were intramped in this supernatural house for years now.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER SUMMARY CRACK

As the narrator looks back to the dreadful house, the crack down the façade splits and the house collapses.

He dies on the spot and the narrator flees.

On cue, Madeleine breaks through the door and falls onto Usher.

He starts muttering about the noises and tells the narrator that they have buried Madeleine alive and she is now standing outside.

The narrator at first tries to ignore the coincidence but the noise gets more and more real and Usher has now faced his chair towards the door of the room.

To comfort Usher, the narrator reads from a story, but the actions described within the story are accompanied by noises from within the house.

After his sister’s death, Usher becomes more and more manic, and one night, during an electrical storm, Usher visits the narrator’s room him in a distracted state.The narrator sees that Madeleine was actually Roderick’s twin and that her disease has left an unsettling blush on her face. That very day, Usher tells the narrator that his sister has died and they bring her coffin to a heavily reinforced vault below the house.The narrator and Usher pass their days painting and reading from Gothic books.His sister, Madeleine, is also very ill and as she walks through the room, the narrator gets a ghostly feeling.Usher explains his condition as inherited, and also believes that it is connected to the house. Inside the house, the narrator finds Usher himself awfully changed, both physically and in his mood, which alternates rapidly between liveliness and sullenness.The family is also interesting for its pure Usher family line.He rides on to the house anyway, because he has been called upon by a very sick old friend, Roderick Usher, who comes from a family of eccentrics, famous for works of art and music.The narrator approaches The House of Usher, an incredibly desolate, aged building, with a crack in the façade from roof to ground, which gives him an awful feeling.