The Fall of the House of Usher

In what ways has Roderick Usher changed since the narrator last saw him?

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And now in the mere exaggeration of the prevailing character of these features, and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous lustre of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity.

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The Fall of the House of Usher

which details of the poem mirror the narrators sense of ushers mental instability