In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the narrator visits his friend Usher, who lives with his sister in a dreary, beat down, old house that is falling apart and aptly named the House of Usher, out of concern for his well being. Ironically, Usher is hypersensitive to his surroundings and as the house continues to fall apart the worse Usher’s condition gets, whereas his sister is the exact opposite; she lost all sensitivity to the point where she is perceived dead and buried by Usher and the narrator. Throughout the story, Poe tends to use diction that describes and clarifies, in depth, everything from the setting to the characters in order to mirror the effect of being subjected to over stimulation the same way