Analysis Of “The Fall Of The House Of Usher“ By: Edger Allen Poe

The first aspect of Poe’s Unity of Effect is brevity, or briefness. Poe believed that a poem or a short story should be read in a single sitting, so that the problems of the world around the reader would not distract him from the unity of the poem or the story itself. “The Fall of The House of Usher” is certainly a short story that is easily read in a single sitting. Poe believed that all excitements or details are, by necessity, brief. A lot of Poe’s descriptions were short and brief. For instance, “In this mansion of gloom…an anomalous species of terror…a flood of intense rays rolled throughout.” All of these small quotations are examples of brief, and to

the point descriptions that give the reader a clear image and picture of the setting. Poe’s brevity remains consistent through the entire story.

The last aspect of Poe’s “Unity of Effect” is that all details of a poem or short story must be closely related to the whole. This story is about the fall of Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline, but Poe uses the descriptions of the mansion as a symbolic reflection of the Ushers. This is how Poe is able to relate the details of the house to the whole of the story about Ushers. The reader discovers a little about the prosperous past of the Ushers and the House Of Usher in the song, “The Haunted Palace” that Roderick plays for the Poe. He describes the house as a “fair and stately place…with banners yellow, glorious, golden on its roof did float and glow…in state his glory well befitting, the ruler of the realm was seen.” The house was described as a once beautiful place in time. He then goes on to describe how “Evil things, in robes of sorrow, assailed the monarch’s high estate…the glory that blushed and bloomed is but a dim remembered story of the old time entombed.” This shows the reader that the line of Ushers has been deteriorating along with the mansion, and the fate of the mansion was tied to that of the fate of the Ushers. The gloomy appearance of the mansion reflected the way the Ushers lived. From the moment Poe walked into the mansion, he described, “The dark draperies that hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered…I felt that I breathed in an atmosphere o

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