The narrator is visiting his friend, Usher, who sent him an earnest letter to visit because he is sick. When he gets to the house, he notes how gloomy and spooky it is. Usher's sister is sick as well and Usher suspects that the house is bad. After the sister dies, Usher is even more loony. He can not sleep and wakes the narrator. The narrator reads to him and starts hearing noises. Usher says that he suspects that they are from his sister, for they might have buried her alive. Usher screams that she is behind the door and then the door opens and she is! She attacks Usher and he dies, the narrator runs away as the house breaks and falls to pieces.
This, like the other Poe stories, shows Gothic attributes with the gloomy, mysterious landscape and the possibly insane minds of the characters. The story begs the question if the house is really possesed by some evil spirit or if the people in the house are just crazy. What if the narrator imagined the whole thing? This depicts how unknown the human mind is and how it can trick someone. All of Poe's stories have been very fun to read because they make you feel like the narrator and that it is happening to you. This makes the reader feel like their mind is insane and I like how Poe is so good at putting you in the situation.
Why does Poe never give names to the narrators?

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