On a stormy autumn (with an implied pun on the word fall?) evening, a traveler-an outsider, like the reader-rides up to the Usher mansion. Poe’s narrative technique draws us immediately into the tale. Whatever conclusion a reader reaches, none finds the story an easy one to forget. Indeed, despite Poe’s distaste for Allegory, some critics view the house as a Metaphor for the human psyche (Strandberg 705). These explanations range from the pre-Freudian to the pre–Waste Land and pre-Kafka-cum-nihilist to the biographical and the cultural. The story has a tantalizingly horrific appeal, and since its publication in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, scholars, critics, and general readers continue to grapple with the myriad possible reasons for the story’s hold on the human psyche. Long considered Edgar Allan Poe‘s masterpiece, “The Fall of the House of Usher” continues to intrigue new generations of readers. Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher
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