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The narrator, a friend from Usher’s childhood, enters the grim Gothic manor and navigates through a series of dark and complex hallways with the help of the butler. He strides across the heavy black floors looking upon the dull and gloomy tapestries and the numerous coats of arms rattling along the wall. The butler led the narrator to meet Usher; opening a door to a long and dark room with narrow windows letting in an ‘encrimsoned’ light. Uncomfortable, antique furniture was scattered across the room complimented by dark draperies hanging on the wall, adding to the overall gloom that is felt in the air. The room had an atmosphere grim, and sorrowful. Usher stood up from lying down and greeted the narrator with incredible warmth, he had a look that inspired pity and awe and the narrator had a difficult remembrance of his boyhood friend. The narrator describes Usher’s appearance having a cadaverousness complexion but having luminous eyes. His pale face matched his pale lips; the hair atop his was soft and stringy like a spiderweb. His voice switched from tremulous indecisiveness and excitement of a ‘lost drunkard’ or an ‘irreclaimable eater of opium.’ Usher described his illness to the narrator and expected to find solace from his friend from from boyhood. Usher told him he suffered from a family evil, that affected him with unnatural sensations. Usher dreads the future, not the events but the results that follow them. He fears any incident that may affect the agitation of his soul. Usher feels he must abandon life and reason in a struggle of fear and the dark illusions that plague his imagination. The sorrowful death of his beloved sister, Madeline, and the Mansion of Usher and all of its dark contents influence the morale of his existence. These things tortue Usher and his existence is a dark and depressed one.

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"To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. "I shall perish in the deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results" (324).
Romantic and Gothic literature also favored the more bizarre events in the plot. The quote tells the reader that as the story continues the plot will only become more interesting and they will encounter several plot twists.

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Sam Khalil
Ethan Anguiano
Sam Escobar
Maddie Jahshan

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" In the manner of my friend I was once struck with incoherence an inconsistent; and I soon found this to arise from a series of feeble and futile struggles to over come an habitual trepidation" (325)The Narrator thinks he encounters with the supernatural. He says its "Feeble and futile" which means that their week which they bring no harm to them.
" I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of Sarrow, An air of stern, deep and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all" (324) The narrator gives us the sarrow, feeling in the atmosphere because of the area around him is dark and gloomy which initiates a sarrow feeling.

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"Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about but failed to give any vitality to the scene. I felt that I breathed the atmosphere of sorrow" (324).
The quote refers to how Romantic and Gothic literature tries to reproduce the mysterious atmosphere suggested by the medieval castles. Medieval castles typically have tapestries and trophies, but the features of the Usher house, although they are still the same, the furniture gives of a more mysterious, dark vibe.

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1. "I shall perish," said he, "I must perish in the deplorable folly" (324). Rodrick is saying he must take care of himself so he won't end up destroyed in his house.
2. The speaker recalls what he observed in the house. He states, "the windows were long, narrow and pointed and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within" (324).
3. Madeline was bound to be sent to the tomb. She was sick and not getting any better. And when the speaker "met the physician of the family... [he] wore a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity" (324). This foreshadows her coming death by being buried alive.