The Fall of the House of Usher characters
There are lots of interpretations of this character because Edgar Allan Po does not like to simplify things. Madeline can be not even a real human. The evidence proves that the narrator does not see her all the time, and they do not interact with each other. An author could use this character to...
Roderick is portrayed as a man who suffers from constant fear. This feeling triggers his internal troubles and worries. He is afraid that one day this fear will kill him. Indeed, it is what happened to him at the very end of the story. His supernatural connection with sister Madeline is not...
The author does not give the name to the narrator showing that it is not important for readers. Such anonymity illustrates that the story itself is more significant than the narrator. The only thing that we know is that the narrator is an old school friend of Roderick Usher. When the narrator...