The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the adjacent lake.

1. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

2. EDGARD ALLAN POE
American writer, poet and critic. Edgar Allan Poe is
famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery,
including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-
Tale Heart" and "The Raven."

3. NARRATION OF THE SHORT STORY
A sense of
insufferable
gloom pervated
his spirit

4. Roderick Usher was his
companion in boyhood.
Its principal feature was of an
excessive antiquity.

5. -His illness, a mental
disorder
- the desire to see
the narrator
-To help him in the
alleviation of his
malady or sickness

6. The entire family lain in
the direct line of
descent. It was a
transmission from sire
to son.

7. The narrator describes
the antiquity of the
house and its furniture.
Usher’s countenance
conviced the narrator of
a perfect sincerity.

8. He is described as a cadaverous one and that he had an
excessive agitation.

9. Usher’s malady was a
constitutional and family
evil.
Lady Madeline had a
cataleptical character

10. The narrator noticed a
small picture in the interior
of a vault or tunnel.

11. THE HAUNTED PALACE
Poetry that describes the
dancing of ghosts and the
phantasmagoric palace. It can be
compared with the “House of
Usher”.

12. The lady Madeline was no
more.
They encoffined the body.

13. The narrator felt the full
power of horror.
“Mad Trist” a book of similar
anomalies.

14. She had blood in her robes.
She remained trembling but
then, she fell upon Usher.

15. The narrator fled away from
the mansion.
A whirlwind destroyed
the walls. There was a
shouting and the tarn
closed sinlently over
the fragments of the
“House of Usher”.

17. CHARACTERS
The narrator
He was childhood friends with Roderick Usher.

18. Roderick Usher
The last living descendant, along
with his ailing sister Madeline,
of the Ushers

19. Madeline
She suffers from a mysterious
illness, cataleptic in nature,
never otherwise explained.

20. PLOT
Internal Conflict: Superstition they feel while in the house.
External Conflict: Roderick is physically ill.

21. RISING ACTION
Roderick Usher asks the narrator
to visit him to try to make
him feel better.

22. CLIMAX
Roderick Usher sees Lady Madeline
burst through the door as stand in the
doorway covered in blood that she
got from escaping the coffin.

23. FALLING ACTION
Lady Madeline attacks Roderick
for burying her when she was
still alive.

24. RESOLUTION
Roderick Usher dies and the narrator
flees the scene as the house comes
down with both Lady Madeline and
Roderick Usher leaving no trace.

25. THEMES
* Mortality
* Fear
* Incest
* Friendship