In the story "The Fall of the House of Usher", there are many mysterious events that happen throughout the story between the characters Roderick Usher and the narrator. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe uses themes such as madness and insanity to connect the house to Roderick Usher. In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the narrator goes through many different experiences when he arrives at the house. The narrator's experiences begin almost imperceptibly at first, grow into larger experiences right before his eyes, and end up becoming problems that cause the deterioration of mind and home before the narrator even decides to do anything useful about it. Roderick and his mental illness. . In "The Fall of the House of Usher", Edgar Allan Poe uses the comparison between the physical House of Usher and the family of Usher to describe that appearances can be deceiving and that small problems can lead to subsequent downfall. of Usher seemed a little sad, but nothing that the narrator felt worried about. Poe writes: “However, in this dark abode I now proposed a stay of a few weeks. Its owner, Roderick Usher, had been one of my best role models as a boy; but many years were erased since our last meeting” (Poe 1). This quote shows the reader that there was a sense of strangeness in the mansion, but the narrator overlooked the strangeness because Roderick Usher was his friend since childhood. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of those stories where the reader knows more about the main character than the narrator. The reader can already grasp Roderick's madness and insanity at the beginning, while the narrator realizes it when it is too late... halfway through the paper... if his friend thought more about people other than their own general appearance. Waiting for problems to get bigger causes serious downfall, so the moral is also: never neglect the opportunity to solve a problem in life before it's too late. Works Cited Hobby, Blake. “The Sublime in “The Fall of the House Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe.” Bloom's literature. File Web Facts, Inc.. February 25, 2014.Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Fall of House Usher." Literature Prentice Hall Georgia: The American Experience. Upper Sadlle River: Pearson, 2011. 292-310. Print.Sova, Dawn B. ""The Fall of the House of Usher."" Bloom's literature. File, Inc. Web Facts. February 25, 2014. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Short stories for students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 51-66. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. February 25. 2014.