There were two things that the narrator notices that day. The reason was strange- “He had decided to do this because of the nature of her illness, because of the strange interest and questions of her doctors, and because of the great distance to the graveyard where members of his family were placed in the earth.”

One day Roderick announces to the narrator that Lady Madeline is dead and that she would be put in a vault for a few days. The narrator who came for friendship’s sake was terrified but he tried to bring ij some cheer with his songs, chats and reading. The house would crash down so would the lives and Roderick. The picture was now completer for the narrator- the house, inside out, and the family members had reached a point of no return.

The other person in the household was Lady Madeline who was afflicted with a disease from which no doctor could redeem. In short there was nothing to cheer about in the Usher household. The inside of the house too was dark and dreary. Yet it was not completely surprising because he had received the letter indicating that Roderick was physically and emotionally ill. He saw a pale and frightened Roderick whom the narrator was not familiar for as a young boy he was healthy and cheerful. “There was a coldness, a sickening of the heart, in which I could dis- cover nothing to lighten the weight I felt.” Meeting his friend did not lessen this miserable feeling. From the time he sees the house there is a sense of sadness in him. So the narrator reaches the Usher mansion to take care of Roderick. Roderick writes to the narrator stating that he was sick and wanted his help. The narrator of this story is unnamed but is the childhood friend of Roderick Usher.

The fall of the house of usher 1839