The Fall of the House of Usher | Themes and 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 tale 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 concludes that while "there...
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