In The Fall of
the House of Usher, I feel we as the reader are supposed to not take it as a
realistic tale and more into a journey of the human imagination. I mean there
are some items in the story that can happen but more than likely didn’t happen.
The idea of the sister coming back from being buried alive seems possible but
unlikely. The psychological encounter I see in this story could be when the
brother says he is hearing voices. This could have been intuition in feeling
that he buried his sister alive, but when she actually comes and attacks seems
a bit much. I feel this is left more to be interpreted as a symbolic tale.
The stereotypes
of the haunted house I see in this story for a “haunted house” can include the
gloomy and grey feeling the house is described as. Also the fact that is it
mentioned that the house is slightly decaying. Over all I enjoyed this story
more than the other one.
In Afterward I couldn’t really understand what was going on until I read
it over and over. I feel like I have a grasp of what the story is but if not,
please help me understand. I would say this story could conform to the definition
of gothic style writing by the idea of it being romanticized. Also the fact
that it can be none realistic because she is able to see her husband even after
he is dead. This is also a very a dark and melancholy story gives it into the
Gothic theme. I guess one way in the fact that would not make it conform to the
typical gothic style of writing; it seems to be a “haunted house”. They are
told there will be a ghost in the house they want to move into and that gives
it a haunted vibe.
