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... when the narrator is reading a story to Roderick he remarks, ..There came to my ears, what might have been, in its exact similarity of character, the echo of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described (332). Through the use of imagery that is described from the narrator it appears that hes tricking himself into believing ... ...
... Usher" to refer to both the decaying physical structure and the last of the "time-honored Usher race." Besides, "the echo (but a stifled and dull one certainly) of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described. It was, beyond doubt, the coincidence alone which had arrested my attention; the sound, in itself, had nothing, surely, which ... ...
... story of Ethelred to Roderick, the sounds of lady Madeline breaking out of the tomb occur simultaneously with similar sounds in the story. First he grows very anxious with the cracking noise of the wood of the coffin. A sense of urgency grows as he "at once [concludes] [his] excited fancy deceives [him]." (853) Then with the shriek from the tomb he ... ...
