Story told through the narrator’s perspective

Rising Action: Roderick, with the help of his friend, entombs Madeline, his sister, who they believe is dead. Or at least the narrator believes so. She was rather ill and suffered from seizure like symptoms so it is not hard to imagine.

Climax: A storm rages outside as the two men are reading a book when they cannot sleep one night. In the climax of the plot, Madeline enters the room covered in blood from her struggle to escape her coffin.

Falling Action: Madeline approaches Roderick and he dies from fear, and the narrator flees.

Denouement: The narrator runs away from the house of Usher, and the building falls to pieces. This could  be representative of the end of the family line.

“He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses; the most insipid food was alone endurable; he could wear only garments of certain texture; the odors of all flowers were oppressive; his eyes were tortured by even a faint light; and there were but peculiar sounds, and these from stringed instruments, which did not inspire him with horror.” 

“...there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”