"The House of Usher" 2/3 _ (211106)

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"The Fall of The House of Usher" series 2/7

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*The story (a very short resume):
- The (unnamed) narrator arrives at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him complaining of an illness and asking for his help.
- Roderick's twin, Madeline, is also ill and often falls into cataleptic, deathlike trances.
- Roderick and Madeline are the only remaining members of the Usher family.
- Roderick tells the narrator that he believes the house is alive, and that this sentience arises from the arrangement of the masonry and vegetation surrounding it. He believes that his and his sister fates are connected to the family mansion.
- Roderick later informs the narrator that Madeline has died and insists that she be entombed for two weeks in the family tomb located in the house before being permanently buried. The narrator helps Roderick put Madeline's body in the tomb.
- A storm begins, and Roderick comes to the narrator's bedroom in an almost hysterical state.
- The narrator attempts to calm Roderick down by reading aloud from a medieval romance entitled "The Mad Trist".
- As the narrator reads, a series of events, similar to some in the romance, happen in the house.
- The bedroom door opens to reveal Madeline, bloodied from her arduous escape from the tomb.
- In a final fit of rage, she attacks her brother, scaring him to death as she herself expires.
- The narrator scapes from the house and watches it cracks, splits in two and sinks down into the lake