ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -How did the doctor greet the narrator upon his arrival? Rudely.

Detailed explanation-2: -The narrator rides his horse to the house and is greeted by a servant. He is taken by a valet to see Usher, and on the way determines that all the objects inside the house – carvings, tapestries, trophies – give him much the same feeling that the outside of the house did.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: In ‘’The Fall of the House of Usher, ” upon seeing Roderick Usher, the narrator feels a sense ‘’half of pity, half of awe. ‘’ The narrator barely recognizes Roderick, thinking that a ‘’man had never before been so terribly altered, in so brief a period.

Detailed explanation-4: -First Person (Peripheral Narrator) The narrator is nameless, which suggests that his principal job is to narrate. We don’t know much about him, and our attention is drawn instead to the strangeness going down in the House of Usher; it’s the narrator’s place to take us on a tour of the Mansion de Fear.