"The Fall of the House of Usher"

1. This story was a very challenging story to understand or interpret. Seeing as it was not a story that one can collect too many ideas on there may be an interpretation that Usher's faults were the cause of Madeline's vampireness."
It was this deficiency, I considered, while running over in thought the perfect keeping of the character of the premises..." He has an obsession with his house so he needs someone. The only way to keep a person in his life because of his issues. "It was no wonder that his condition terrified..."



2. Frequently authors describe directly the faults of human nature. This is proven when in "The Black Cat" Poe states "Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or stupid action, for no reason other than he know he should not?" By saying this his tone reflects the fact that he feels angered by this. It is also pointed out directly when Faulkner says "In a Rose for Emily" "When the next generation, with it's more modern ideas, became mayors and alderman, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction." He is entertaining the idea that the younger generation is at a major fault because they want to change tradition. The fact of the fault of human nature is also described in the short story "Everything that Rises Must Converge" as the narrator says "Julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who drank and screamed at him. The fault provoked at this moment is the fault of greed which is still a character of human nature. This is also indirectly brought up when the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" says "....but is unconsciously imbibed by everyone who resides there for a time" the human nature fault here is the desires to do what isn't right. The wrong thing to do stated in the quote is being at a place in the wrong time and drinking with the absence of knowledge. The authors all communicate this in the same way and it appears that they all think the same way about human nature. They communicate this in a way that is directly-indirect. With that being said they stress the ideas of human nature by giving the reader a characters bad characteristics to focus on and driving them out harder. They also express this is the tone of their pieces. The tone is usually negative with a mood of apathy. Their thoughts on human nature is that human nature makes a person very unstable mentally and makes one a somewhat negative because they do many things wrong. Such as when they let someone go, or when they drink, or do other things that would be considered morally wrong.