Dec 17, 2009

The Fall of the House of Usher | Characters

Except for a servant, a valet, and a family physician, who appear in the opening scenes and are never mentioned again, the characters of "The Fall of the House of Usher" are the unnamed narrator, Roderick Usher and his twin-sister Madeline, who are the last surviving descendants of the Usher line. Roderick suffers from an oppressive mental disorder and has summoned the narrator to his side in the hope of alleviating his sickness. The narrator arrives at Usher's house but immediately finds himself overcome by an "insufferable gloom." Unable to explain away this feeling, the narrator...