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Roderick Usher Setting

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While setting is relevant to the revelation of the story’s atmosphere, it is also crucial to note its significance to the acknowledgement of the character’s physical and mental state. Upon the narrator’s arrival in the house of Usher, Poe writes, “I looked upon the scene before me— . . . upon the bleak walls— . . . the vacant eye-like windows— . . . and . . . a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul . . . –the bitter lapse into everyday life” (Lynch and Rampton 16). This passage indicates Poe’s description of Roderick Usher, the narrator’s childhood friend and the man who inhibits in the house. Although Poe merely describes the landscape of the house and its surroundings, he also gives the readers a glimpse of the
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