In the story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar
             Allen Poe, setting is used to portray many different
             things. Poe uses setting to suggest ideas, effects,
             and images. It creates a mood and foreshadows future
             events. Poe communicates facts about the characters
             through symbols throughout the setting. In the story
             the narrator is going to the House of Usher to comfort
             his friend, Roderick Usher who has fallen into a
             mental depression. These negative influences
             ultimately lead to death in the end. The story
             revolves around the effects of fear and how the denial
             of our fears can lead to madness. #
             The narrator is immediately skittish about the house
             As he approaches the house, "with the first glimpse of
             the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded
             my spirit."(Poe 21) The entire opening scene was
             gloomy as if he'd stepped into blackness. He
             describes the house as having "vacant eye-like windows
             upon a few rank sedges and upon a few white trunks of
             decayed trees with an utterdepression of soul which I
             can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than
             to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium" (Poe
             21). He sees the image of the house as if it were a
             large a skull and we can sense fear starting to invade
             the narrators mind. As he encounters his friend for
             the first time in many years he is shocked Roderick's
             appearance. He describes him as having "A
             cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large,
             liquid, and luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat
             thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful
             curve". (Poe 25) It was as if he was
             staring death in the face and he felt, "startled and
             even awed"(Poe 26) at the sight of Usher. Roderick
             Usher had a twin sister named Madeline
             who also resided in the mansion, although the narrator
             only caught glimpses of her...