Poe gives great detail of the setting of the story, especially in this quote; “I know not how it was -- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” (line 5, 412, “Usher”.) Here, the narrator is talking about how the house, upon a first glance, leaves you with a chilling sense of dreadfulness and causes a wave of anxiety on oneself. Even the first sentence of the story exclaims the gloominess of the setting, with the sentence being, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year…” (line 1, 412, “Usher”.) Right away, the reader takes in the fact that the story is set during a gloomy, muggy day, adding much to the fatalistic tone that is expressed throughout this
Poe gives great detail of the setting of the story, especially in this quote; “I know not how it was -- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” (line 5, 412, “Usher”.) Here, the narrator is talking about how the house, upon a first glance, leaves you with a chilling sense of dreadfulness and causes a wave of anxiety on oneself. Even the first sentence of the story exclaims the gloominess of the setting, with the sentence being, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year…” (line 1, 412, “Usher”.) Right away, the reader takes in the fact that the story is set during a gloomy, muggy day, adding much to the fatalistic tone that is expressed throughout this