LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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As childhood friends
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Detailed explanation-1: -In terms of what plot there is, it is set somewhere in the past, and we find out that the narrator and Roderick Usher have been friends and schoolmates previous to the story’s beginning.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Usher seems to hope that the cheerfulness of the narrator’s company will alleviate his illnesses.
Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator knows Usher from his childhood. Roderick Usher wants the narrator to meet him at the Usher house. What does the quote say about Roderick Usher as a person? (Is he friendly is he quiet?
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The narrator and Roderick Usher are childhood friends. In “boyhood, ” they were “boon companions, ” though they had had little interaction with one another as adults.