The House of Usher falls, causing a fall to the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a chilling story written in the first person perspective through the eyes of a possibly crazed narrator. Part of the story's horror comes from the fact that the reader can never be entirely sure as to what is true and what is fiction. In any case, a main theme of the …
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…is a relation between a house and a family through physical properties, perspectives, and either extraordinary situations or scientific coincidences. Poe, apparently, had the story planned to work out the way it did, showing the reader the obvious relations, but allowing a degree of mystery by relying on a first person perspective through the eyes of a crazy person. Everything is related to everything else, details only appear useless until you've pieced them all together.