Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher

I chose a work of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Ushers”. I was first introduced to the writings of Poe in 7th grade. We studied a series of his short stories. I think what drew me to his writings were that there is not always a happy ending. We would read his stories in class and even after the classroom discussion, we would still ponder on the way his stories made us feel. My own opinion of Edgar Allan Poe is I love the fact that his stories end with sadness, and it is ok to have a sad ending. I think his stories help me understand some of my own feelings at that time when I was younger. I had lost my grandfather, whom I was so close too, and no matter how much I prayed he still passed away. I related to not having a happy ending. I also loved his description, of the character’s personal emotions, and how he would build up to the climax in his stories and keep me on the edge of my seat.

This story like most of Poe’s stories and poetry are considered written in Gothic style. Gothic style was popular during the romantic period in the 1800’s. Other popular writers in Britain, such and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Jane Austen “Northanger Abbey” Poe’s stories were considered terrorizing, because of the circumstances that he wrote about. He wrote mostly about love, death or the loss of a loved one. Like in the “The Fall of the House of Ushers” Poe’s terrorizes his audiences with his description of the narrator's first sight of the house. As soon and it the narrator comes into view he expresses a feeling of depression. His description of the dilapidated estate, overgrown with moss. The way he describes the window like eyes and the fissure that runs from the roof of the house all the way to the pond. Also, the stated that Robert Usher’s mental health, who seems to fear, fear itself. This puts the reader in a state of anticipation of fear, like watching a horror movie