Readers like an ending that is like a puzzle. They like to have to use their own imagination to interpret the ending of the story. One author that make the ending extremely interesting is Edgar Allan Poe. The ending of many of Poe's work is left ambiguous. In The Fall of the House of Usher the cause of the house falling was the dramatic effect of natural causes. Many people believe in hunting in Usher, but malnutrition is a more logical explanation. When the house fell, the Usher line died with it. Some people may say that Roderick and Madeline were vampires. Evidence that people use to support this statement are that they are an ancient family, pure blood in the family, sensitive to smells, red light shines in the room, they have pale skin, they have chapped lips, Madeline escaped from the tomb covered in blood, and Madeline never sleeps. All of this evidence can simply be the explanation of malnutrition. Everyone in the family died of a disease according to Roderickt. Based on the evidence stated in the previous paragraph. Roderick thinks he is the next one to die because of the family history. …show more content…
He was enchained by certain superstitious impressions in regard to the dwelling which he tenanted, and whence, for many years, he had never ventured forth — in regard to an influence whose supposititious force was conveyed in terms too shadowy here to be re-stated — an influence which some peculiarities in the mere form and substance of his family mansion, had, by dint of long sufferance, he said, obtained over his spirit — an effect which the physique of the gray walls and turrets, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked down, had, at length, brought about upon the morale of his existence.” (Poe page