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A 5 page discussion of the characteristics of the narrator in this story by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was preoccupied with death, disfigurement, and the darker aspects of the universe. He was an expert at blending together characters, plot and setting in such a way that his reader was captivated. The author of this paper asserts that in “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe introduces a narrator whose personal characteristic shape the entire plot of the tale. No additional sources are listed.
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is one of Edgar Allan Poes most memorable works. That is quite an accomplishment given Poes literary productivity. Now dead over one-hundred and fifty years, Edgar Allan Poe
has left us some of the most chilling horror stories ever written. He did, in fact, provide us with some of the first horror stories the literary world had
ever known. As "The Fall of the House of Usher" attests, Poe was preoccupied with death, disfigurement, and the darker aspects of the universe. He was an expert
at blending together characters, plot and setting in such a way that his reader was captivated. In "The Fall of the House of Usher" he introduces a narrator whose
personal characteristic shape the entire plot of the tale. The narrator of "The House of Usher" is the childhood friend of the patron
of the house of Usher, Roderick Usher. On his visit to his friend the narrator discovers a house which is in severe disrepair and surrounded by what Poe describes
as a "black and lurid tarn". Even more alarming to Roderick, as we shall discover, is the eminent presence of all types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even
permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a minute fungi. We are introduced to the narrator
as an outgoing young man who is on a quest to see a life long friend. The house which he encounters, and even more alarmingly the mental and physical
condition of its occupants, jar the young mans awareness that something is incredibly wrong at the house of Usher. He find his friend and his sister living alone at
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