Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a story about two twin siblings whose lives are dwindling down due to mental and physical illnesses. Roderick and Madeline Usher, who live alone together in their family mansion, suffer from two different illnesses. Roderick deals with “acuteness of the senses” that causes him to be extremely sensitive to light, sound, taste, and touch. Madeline has more of physical illnesses that lead to pain in her body. Roderick writes a letter to the narrator seeing if he would come to the mansion to be a helping hand. The narrator arrives at the house and is surprised at how creepy looking the house is but goes inside to see his childhood friend. Taking a glance at Roderick and his sister, the narrator can tell the two have been sick and are close to the end.
Days go by and Madeline does indeed pass away like Roderick had predicted. The narrator and Roderick would put her in a temporary vault underneath the mansion. A few days later, the two friends couldn’t sleep one night and started hearing noises that sounded as if they were coming from under the mansion. Roderick assumes they buried his sister alive and moments later, the door swings open with Madeline standing there. The bloody sister makes her way to Roderick and throws herself on him, who fell to the ground and would die with his twin. The fearful narrator would run outside and watch as the Usher’s house crumbled into nothing. Poe centered the story’s theme on the decaying of life. The life of the house and its residents were in a state of decay throughout the entire story. The narrator realized the house was already old and worn when he first arrived, then personally witnessed the death of both Roderick and Madeline as well as the house