![]() This caused Roderick to be emotionally and physically depressed, and was described as a madman at this point. This “fissure” is presented to the reader, early in the story, to represent that Roderick’s love for his twin sister, Madeline, was dying, because she was suffering from a mysterious malady, or disease, that baffled her doctors. Poe describes the house as having “eye-like windows” and being covered by “minute fungi…hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves (fungi eats off the dead remains of other organisms) a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn”(Poe, 6-13). Even Poe’s description of the house has deadly characteristics. The physical aspect of the House of Usher symbolizes death, in the chain of events, during the story. “There are no symbols of absolute good” (Abel, 382). ![]() Bringing forth the symbolism of death is a major part of this writing.Īll of the characters in “The Fall of the House of Usher” are linked to death by physical objects or by other people. ![]() “It is usually admired for its ‘atmosphere’ and for its exquisitely artificial manipulation of Gothic claptrap and decor”(Abel, 380). ![]()
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