ce in autumn, a season associated w!
             ith death. When the story's tension is about to reach its crescendo, a storm comes up, a "rising tempest." This is a symbol for the 'tempest' brewing in Roderick Usher's mind. Poe's use of foreshadowing is just enough to clue the reader into what will happen, but not enough to give it away.
             Character traits are displayed through the way the setting affects, influences, and reveals aspects of the characters. The gloomy atmosphere of the Usher mansion deeply affects the narrator, who becomes "sucked in" to Usher's "dream world," the world he created after living alone in his dismal house for years. Usher's house itself is a symbol for Usher. It is isolated like Ushe
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