This detail could symbolize the result of mental death Roderick suffers once Madeline dies. Again, this detail symbolizes something to come later on in the story. No thoughts, dreams, or memories are happening behind those eyes, no life at all is taking place in there. The vacant eyelike windows could describe the shape of the windows, or it could mean that eyes later in the short story will be vacant. Later on in the short story, Poe conjures similar imagery by using the term, “The discoloration of ages had been great…cadaverousness of complexion” on pages 89 and 90. The bleak walls could simply refer to the forgotten and abandoned pealing paint. In addition, each of these characteristics is symbolic of something else and offer a foreboding warning, or signal for what is to come. The narrator identifies four characteristics of the exterior, calling the readers attention to them not on accident, but on purpose. On page 87 he describes the exterior of the house as, “upon the bleak walls, upon the vacant eyelike windows, upon a few rank sedges, and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees.” Demonstrating that he cleverly extends his eerie, mysterious, creepy atmosphere by speaking through his chosen place. Poe sets the mood and overall tone for the short story, by describing the setting and the quality of the location, in which the events will occur. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of the iconic examples, the world of literature looks to on the topic of setting. Before reading the below post, please read “ The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe.Įdgar Allan Poe is famous for his description in his writing.
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