The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the house of Usher is about a horror story. I think it was made to shake you up because it did indeed scare me. Just reading it made me feel as if I was there every step of the way and the author used good pathos because the feeling was definitely there. Don’t get me wrong I did enjoy the story it was just some nightmare to it.
The beginning of the story made you a little confused at first because you have this guy riding on a horse and stopping at a place that sounds like a night mare. It took me a minute to start really following the story plot. What I finally got from it was that there is this guy visiting this old friend of his named Roderick, and this old friend of seems to be sick. He has an illness that just seems to be insanity to me at first but it really is just the fear of his own home. It seems that his family has a history of never passing to the next generation, but he does live at home with his sister whom we later find out is his twin.
While the narrator is staying with his friend he helped to brighten his gloomy days by just spending genuine time with him. The house does tend to creep the narrator out from time to time also, but he doesn’t let it get to him that bad. The longer he says with his friend the weirder things get. His friend twin sister soon dies and he wants to bury her in the basement underground so that people won’t try to dig her up and study her. So they bury her and as time goes by things get really scary.
They are having a regular weird night at the mansion and then all of a sudden things get crazy. One night they see a strange fog coming from the bottom of the house and they don’t know hats going on. So the narrator thinks fast and tried to read Roderick a story to keep him calm so they can eventually fall asleep. Roderick is having other thoughts and starts blurting out about how his sister wasn’t dead and that she was buried alive! So the narrator of course doesn’t believe this and blows the whole thing off until his twin sister really does burst thru the door!
In the end the narrator gets out of that night mare of a place. The house ends up crumbling to the ground as soon as he leaves. I think that it is ironic that he made it out just in the nick of time. It makes me think that maybe he was the reason that the house didn’t fall apart. Maybe his friend was so urgent about sending him a letter to get him there because his positive energy would keep the house standing for a little while longer.