A Rose For Emily

            The House of Usher
            
            
             The new criticism has nothing to do with the biography of the author but what the literature means to the reader. In the story "House of Usher" Roderic and his sister Madeline are suffering from an intermarriage of the family. The usher family was endanger of there extinction of there race. Roderic suffers from" a morbid acuteness of the senses". Madeline suffers from depression that makes her look like she has been wasted away in a dead like pail formation of her skin. Roderic believes that the mansion controls his life and then he will become apart of the mansion.
             Roderic sends his boyhood friend to come to his mansion and hopes that he can bring cheer to his house relive all the depression that Roderic has.
             His friend travels horseback all the way the House of Usher. He went to the House of usher In the autumn and he felt that the house was filled with unpleasant death and darkness. Inside the mansion the friend notices a deep and irredeemable gloom which hung over the house. Roderic arose to greet his old friend. His friend pictured him as a "cadaverous of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous; lips... very pallid; a nose... with breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a ...chin...in...want of moral energy; hair of a web like softness and tenuity; these features, with an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple, made up altogether a countenance not easily to be forgotten."
             For several days Roderick and his friend painted, talked, read, and played guitar so they can do something that would make Roderick and his friend feel less depressed and more cheerful one evening, Roderick told his friend that "the lady Madeline was no more and he started his intention of preserving the corps for a fortnight..." His sisters illness was very unusual and it was said to be that his sister was suffering from extreme depression and sadn...

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