How similar can a woman who likes dead things and a mentally ill incestous man be? There are many similarities and differences between these characters. While the stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “A rose for Emily” share the gothic genre, they differ in terms of theme, and characters.
Emily from “A rose for Emily” and Roderick Usher from “The Fall of the House of Usher” both suffer from mental issues, but they aren’t really that similar. Emily is a very creepy, lonesome woman.She doesn’t have much family left because her father just passed away. She has been isolated from the town for about 30 years. Somewhere in that time she became friendly with a man by the name of Homer Barron. Not long after that Homer disappeared and nobody really looked into it. However, the day that Emily died, they found his skeleton on a bed with one of Emily’s gray hairs next to it because she liked to cuddle with Homer’s dead body. Keep in mind that this is near 30 years after Homer disappeared. Emily is very mentally unstable and she even enjoys dead people.
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He is very odd looking and crazy. He has mental issues like Emily does, but his is an actual mental illness. He is scared of everything, he never really has gone outside his mansion. His family is incest and they only have kids with other Ushers. He and his sister are the last two Ushers and after them the Usher family is gone. Emily is assumed to murder Homer barron, well Roderick Usher also attempted murder of his sister. She has been very sick and at one point she didn’t wake up. They put her inside a vault while Usher secretly knew she was alive. After eight days they started to hear noises and they opened up the vault to find her still alive, but nearly dead. She jumped out of the vault onto Roderick Usher and they both died instantly on the floor. That was the end of the Usher