This story is about a man (the narrator of the story) who is
             visiting his childhood friend, that is suffering from "acuteness of the senses".
             His friend, Roderick Usher, sent for him hoping that his friend might
             give him support. Though his mental problems were a large part of his
             sorrow, most of it was due to his sister's illness. Much of the narrator's
             time at The House of Usher was spent reading philosophical books with Usher,
             apparently a great hobby of them both. One evening Usher came to the
             narrator and told him "that the lady Madeline [Usher's sister] was no
             more." (212) He also informed him of his intentions of keeping her corpse
             for a fortnight in one of the many vaults in the house. Having no wish to
             oppose his wishes, the narrator helps him bury the body at Usher's
             request. The mood in the house has worsened, and Usher is no longer
             The narrator finds usher ranting about the storm, and he explains
             to him its only a natural occurrence, and turns to their earlier hobby of
             reading to distract him. He decides to read the Mad Trist. It is a
             story of a Hero, Ethelred, who forcibly enters the home of a hermit and
             finds a dragon in his place. During his telling of the story, the narrator
             hears noises but dismisses them as coincidence. As he continued the sounds
             began to get louder, and eventually Usher speaks, "yes, I hear it, and have
             heard it ... We have put her living in the tomb!" At this point the reader
             still thinks Usher is mad and is hearing his sister in death, but soon that theory is disproven, when the lady Madeline is still alive and enters the room killing her
             brother. The narrator leaves at the sight of this and soon after the House
             This story is full of secondary meaning. One of Poe's uses of hidden meanings in this tale is the many stories the two read. They seem to imply a premise of an evil existence. They
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