Compare And Contrast The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Conveying mental meaning between The Fall of the house of Usher and Boys and Girls.

The Fall of the house of Usher, by: Edgar Allan Poe and Boys and Girls by: Alice Munro are two very distinct stories written by two very unique authors that convey central meanings between their narrator's role in the story and their dystopian settings, and in their sense of realism and in the characteristics in which both settings are perceived by each narrator. In the story The Fall of the house of Usher, we have quite an enigmatic narrator. He refrains from describing himself, not to mention his role in all of the story, however he does not fail to mention all that is wrong with this location which he suddenly finds himself in. Our narrator in the short

That major difference is one that is brought to light by the narrators of both stories. In The Fall of The House of Usher, we have our very enigmatic narrator who is a world traveler and has traveled the seas and has even been in two hurricanes while out at sea. He arrives at the what I’d like to call borderline terrifying House of Usher with one perspective molded into a quote that encompasses and defines his narration not to mention overall perspective for the entire story. This quote, one that I find a bit disturbing goes as follows: “But with my first glimpse of the house after so long, an unexpected sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” It is with a quote like this that we get to witness and experience the setting in our story (no matter how jolly it may be objectively) in a darker tone as a result of the narrator’s outlook. The narrator brings our story to life and these narrator’s from respective stories have done nothing short of that, they draw the meaning from how they see the world and it is our duty as the reader to interpret that