Fall of the house of Usher

The house of Usher truly demonstrates Edgar Allen Poe's imagination in this very unpredictable piece of prose writing. The narrarator goes to visit an old friend that has fallen ill and upon the narrarator's arrival he sees that the house is in tatters. Roderick Usher spends time with the narrarator over the next few days. Usher on one day starts to talk about his dead sister. He eventually goes into a state of hysteria where he claims his sister is alive and that he buried her alive on purpose in the family vault. At that moment the dead sister comes out of the vault and Usher dies of fear. As the narrator escapes the house crumbles into the lake portraying the fall of the house of usher.