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Fall of the House of Usher “It was the apparent heart sent with the request – which allowed me no room for hesitation; and I accordingly obeyed forthwith what I still considered a very singular summons (91).” In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” there were three main characters. The narrator was an unnamed fellow from Roderick’s boyhood. Roderick was a mentally ill person with a twin sister named Madeline, who suffered …

…body starts to deteriorate Roderick begins to loose his mind because the mind cannot survive without the senses. And then after Roderick buried his senses alive they only came back to kill him at the end. With this ending of the Usher clan the House of Usher tumbles into the abyss of the “deep and dank tarn” as the narrator flees the house holding on to his own sanity only to remember what had happened.