Similarities Between The Devil And Tom Walker And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Mike Cooley stated the famous quote “living in fear is just another way of dying before your time”. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving both express gothic literary details such as; symbolism, personification, mood, and foreshadowing. In “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Tom Walker chose to work with the devil instead of living in fear. “In the Fall of the House of Usher”, the narrator did not live in fear until he went back to his bestfriends how and he witnessed to death at one time. Many similarities are shown throughout these text but, there are also many differences. “The Fall of the House of Usher’’ and “The Devil and Tom Walker” both have very similar traits when it comes

In paragraph 1, Tom looks at one of the old gigantic trees and points out that “according to old stories, there was a great amount of treasure buried by Kidd the Pirate.” This makes him look back at the old stories he used to read years before. Tom continues to talk about these stories when he mentions “The Indian Wars” and when “it was asserted that the savages held incantations [there], and made sacrifices of the evil spirit” (Paragraph 7). Looking back at the stories makes Tom realize what has gone on in places that he goes to and lives in. Lastly, in paragraph 58, Tom begans to loose his patience over time and yells for the devil to “take [him]” and then repeats for the devil to “take him”. This is ironic because he invited the Devil to go and take him , which is what Old Scratch did promptly on cue. Using foreshadowing help the narrator express his feelings and differentiate this story from “The Fall of the House of

In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator tends do compare the house to a person. In paragraph 1, the house is described the have “vacant eyelike windows” and “an utter depression soul”. These are both human-like characteristics that a house can not actually have. Roderick Usher began playing his guitar while the narrator was there and the music was so pretty he described the guitar as a “speaking guitar”. This shows that that him playing the guitar was so amazing that it sounded like it was speaking to him but that can never happen. Lastly, when the storm started the draperies where describes as “swaying fitfully to and fro upon the walls” (Paragraph 31). As you may know, draperies can not sway. All three of these example of personification are ways that “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe differs from “The Devil and Tom