Part one of term paper
The Fall of the House of Usher In Edgar Allen Poe's, "Fall of the House of Usher", Poe utilizes life-like characteristics of a decaying house to give it an unnatural or supernatural atmosphere, and in effect bring it’s inhabitants to their impending doom. From the beginning of the story, the house is given a supernatural and unusual at ...

Part two of term paper
... of depression, in reality houses don’t have a sense of feeling, Poe is giving the house life with these words. This is the first sign of a supernatural or unusual atmosphere. When the narrator is examining the building from the outside he describes what he is seeing and how he feels as he looks upon the house, “the vacant eye-like windows…upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no ...