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Q. What was the visitors relationship to Roderick Usher?
What was the visitor’s relationship to Roderick Usher? Usher and the visitor had been boyhood companions. The visitor and Usher had been long-time business partners. Usher was the visitor’s brother-in-law.
Table of Contents
- Q. What was the visitors relationship to Roderick Usher?
- Q. Why do the narrator and his friend go to a vault below the mansion?
- Q. Who is the narrator Why has he come to the Usher mansion?
- Q. What does allure of darkness mean?
- Q. Why does the narrator and his friend go to a vault below the mansion?
- Q. Why does the narrator go to the house?
- Q. What does Roderick confess to hearing several days past Madeline’s death?
- Q. How does Roderick die?
- Q. How does the narrator know Roderick Usher?
- Q. What unusual sounds does the narrator hear?
- Q. What is the message of the fall of the House of Usher?
- Q. What did the old man cry out when awakened?
Q. Why do the narrator and his friend go to a vault below the mansion?
The narrator and his friend go to the vault below the mansion because they wanted to entomb Usher’s sister. At the end of the story, the house completely falls down.
Q. Who is the narrator Why has he come to the Usher mansion?
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.
Q. What does allure of darkness mean?
vb. 1 tr to entice or tempt (someone) to a person or place or to a course of action; attract.
Q. Why does the narrator and his friend go to a vault below the mansion?
Q. Why does the narrator go to the house?
Why does the narrator go to the house? He is a doctor and is called by Roderick Usher to treat an illness that he is suffering from. He is invited by letter to help Roderick Usher repair the house since he is sick and can’t do it himself.
Q. What does Roderick confess to hearing several days past Madeline’s death?
speak.” He says he should be “pitied” for having been forced to listen to her all this time. Then, he confesses that he is terrified she will “upbraid” him for his “haste” in burying her. While he is clearly terrified and horrified, he is much more concerned for himself than for his sister.
Q. How does Roderick die?
While his sister is cataleptic and wasting away, Roderick is tormented by, to be quite honest, his own fear. One conclusion to be drawn from the final scene is that Roderick dies of fear. Madeline rushes upon him and he falls to the floor a corpse, too terrified to go on living.
Q. How does the narrator know Roderick Usher?
The narrator knows Usher from his childhood. Roderick Usher wants the narrator to meet him at the Usher house. This quote says that Roderick Usher is a calm laid back person he never reveals anything about himself.
Q. What unusual sounds does the narrator hear?
He hears the cracking and ripping of wood, a shriek, and he hears a shield fall. This is ironic because the noises he hears are the same ones they read about in the story.
Q. What is the message of the fall of the House of Usher?
Fear is a pervasive theme throughout “The Fall of the House of Usher,” playing a prominent role in the lives of the characters. The story shows that fear and imagination feed off one another. The narrator is afraid of the old mansion, even though there is no specific threat.
Q. What did the old man cry out when awakened?
What did the old man cry out when awakened? The old man cried out, “Who’s there?” What was the low, dull, quick sound the narrator heard before he killed the old man? It was his own heartbeat.
