The Story Of Usher Summary And Relationship To Themes
The story begins on one "...dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year...." From the very beginning, the reader, as a result of Poe's imagery, is aware of a sense of death and decay. Even the narrator, Roderick's childhood companion, describes "a sense of unbearable gloom [which] pervaded [his] spirit" as he approached the House of Usher. Setting in all works of literature is the make or break of a story. If an author does a good job the reader places his or herself in the book and sees themselves in the setting. The story begins at dusk on an autumn day in an earlier time. The place is a forbidding mansion in what is a somewhat deserted countryside. The mansion, covered by a fungus, is encircled by a small lake, called a tarn that resembles a moat. A bridge across the tarn provides access to the mansion. All these factors define the setting and provide the reader with a certain mood. Although "The Fall of the House of Usher" has no definite setting except for the......
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