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This 8 page paper discusses the Edgar Alan Poe short story, Fall of the House of Usher, and compares/contrasts it with Faulkner's A Rose for Emily. Discussions about gothic style, form, and how Poe influenced Faulkner.
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the diabolic and talented Vincent Price in the movie adaptation of Edgar Allan Poes, Fall of the House of Usher. It can be said that Poes genius influenced practically every
mystery writer, or those related to the genre, by his devices and structures, even Faulkner. This is especially evident in Faulkners story, A Rose for Emily. Poes work, Fall of
the House of Usher, is decidedly gothic in its imagery, one could say. Full of dark surroundings, ghostly symbols and a brooding sense of foreboding the Usher Mansion is an
apt place for something terrible to happen. And it does. The novel opens with the undisclosed narrator receiving a letter from his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who was asking him
to come as quickly as possible to the manor. Though it is obvious that it has been many years since the narrator has seen Usher, he is moved by the
mans appeal that the narrator is his only one and true friend. The narrator is struck by the appearance of the manor as he drives up to it. He
states that the windows are eye like and seem to be staring at him and that the decaying old house seemed to have an overpowering gloom, "an illness, a sickening
of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Aristocratic family. Roderick, himself, is a
brilliant musician. However, when the narrator meets him, it is evident that Usher is only a shadow of the man the narrator remembered from school. However, to the narrators
surprise, Roderick has a sister, Madeline, who is Rodericks twin. After only a short while it becomes apparent to the narrator that there is a special spiritual bond between the
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