story question help please! for edgar allan poe?

Question

If you read the House of Usher, this ques. is for you.
How does the House of Usher remind you of a fire breathing dragon? A sleeping bat? A bed of roses? A lost child?

Thanks in advance! :)

Answer 1

The story is about a house so closely connected with the family that owns it that as the family breaks down so does the house or vise versa. I've heard opinions both ways, anyway, as a fire breathing dragon: both are massive and powerful, protective and beautiful but also dangerous and destructive. A sleeping bat, sorry don't see the correlation there. A bed of roses: both are beautiful living things that with out love and care will dwindle and die and both have thorns. Like a lost child, the house without love and care, someone to guide it, it will fall into despair. Don't know if this will help you but to me the story said that the true foundation of a house is the family that inhabits it.