The Fall of the House of Usher Family Quotes Page 2
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| Quote #4 I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity--an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the grey wall, and the silent tarn--a pestilent and mystic vapour, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued. (4) |
This atmosphere is like a physical manifestation of the mood Poe creates in his story.
| Quote #5 "Her decease," he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget, "would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers." (13) |
This is the end of the line for the Ushers – the fate of the entire family blood line lies with the fate of Roderick and Madeline.
| Quote #6 A striking similitude between the brother and sister now first arrested my attention; and Usher, divining, perhaps, my thoughts, murmured out some few words from which I learned that the deceased and himself had been twins, and that sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them. (24) |
This passage suggests a sort of supernatural connection between the two twins. This connection, we will soon see, transcends even death.
