LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Listens to Usher’s improvisations on the guitar
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travels with Usher to visit the Usher family home
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travels to visit Usher at the Usher’s family home
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helps Usher bury Usher’s sister Madeline
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Detailed explanation-1: -He has come to the house because his friend Roderick sent him a letter earnestly requesting his company. Roderick wrote that he was feeling physically and emotionally ill, so the narrator is rushing to his assistance. The narrator mentions that the Usher family, though an ancient clan, has never flourished.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the beginning of “The Fall of the House of Usher, ” what does the narrator do? He travels to visit Roderick Usher at Usher’s family home.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plot. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country, complaining of an illness and asking for his help.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Collapse of the House of Usher As Madeline falls forward onto her brother, she brings him – and the Usher family bloodline – to the ground. The narrator runs away in terror and, once outside, turns back to see the house split in two, and collapse into the “lurid tarn” as to mark the end of the Usher family name.
Detailed explanation-5: -In ‘’The Fall of the House of Usher, ” the narrator visits Roderick Usher because he sends him a strange letter describing his mental and physical illnesses and begs the narrator to visit him.