The Fall of the House of Usher
Haunting, Eerie Setting
What is the Haunting, Eerie setting in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Please give a quote from the story then analys the quote.
What is the Haunting, Eerie setting in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Please give a quote from the story then analys the quote.
The beginning of the story sets the mood for eerie. Everything about the surrounding area and the house is pretty creepy,
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was -- but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."
Then everything in the house, including Roderick, is decomposing and very eerie.