... of the mansion, the setting, and of Roderick Usher himself. As in almost all of Poe's stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher- takes place in autumn. A sense of death and decay surrounds the Usher mansion. Although no portion of the masonry had fallen...there appeared to be a wild inconsistency between its still perfect adaptation of parts, and the crumbling condition of the individual stones.... The eye ... The Fall of the House of Usher, is that of the nature of the house. The way it is described and the way it is so mysterious. Another central theme about this story is the nature of t...

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