Can you summorize the Fall of the House of Usher for me?

Question

im reading Edgar Alan poe's short stories in middle school and this is the story i dont understand on all the times i tried to read it.

thanks kamsatpe! for answering.

Answer 1

i just read that in school actually...

so what happens is this narrator is going to go visit his old childhood friend Roderick Usher. He gets to the Usher house and observes the house. it is all broken down, dismal, and depressing. Roderick has a twin sister, Madeline, who is suffering from a mental disease, cataleptical seizures. Roderick is also suffering from mental disease, his being acuteness of the senses.
one day his sister supposedly dies and instead of giving her body up for autopsy, Roderick decides to put her body into a dungeon vault in the basement of the house.
the narrator and roderick live stay at the house for about a week after this. the mental state of roderick begins to affect the narrator and the narrator has trouble sleeping and hears strange sounds.
one night it is very windy out and roderick usher sees glowing objects and mist which the narrator blames on electrical problems or swamp gas.

the narrator reads Roderick's favorite book the "mad trist". as he reads, in the story there is wood door being broken down, and then in real life the narrator swears he can hear the sound of wood cracking also. the narrator reads of a dragon in the story that screams and he thinks he can hear a screaming sound also. in the story a shield falls to the ground and the narrator hears the sound of metall falling somewhere in the house.
at that moment the doors of the room fly open and a ghostlike form of madeline stands there in a bloody white robe. she flies upon roderick, killing him. the narrator flees from the house in fear and looks behind him. the house cracks and breaks, falling apart.

meanings:
all the characters in this story suffered from some form of insanity. the narrator had suffered also from temporary insanity brought about by his experiences in the house.

Roderick knew that Madeline was alive and was suffering from a coma brought on by a catalyptic seizure. he saw her extreme insanity as what he might end up like, so in fear of ending up like her he sealed her up in the dungeon.

Madeline had woken up from her seizure in the coffin in the dungeon. she had broken out of it (the sound of wood breaking) then opened up the iron door of the vault (the screaming noise) and then struggled within the copper archway fo the vault (the sound of metal falling). she then searched out her twin brother to destroy him for his betrayal. both twins died together, a strange fate.

Answer 2

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Can you summorize the Fall of the House of Usher for me?
im reading Edgar Alan poe's short stories in middle school and this is the story i dont understand on all the times i tried to read it.

Answer 3

Narrator recieves a letter from the head of the Usher house who is dying. The narrator attempts to comfort Usher in his illness It is later revealed that Usher's twin sister is ill as well. She then dies, and is interred in the family tomb. Narrator reads a story about a Knight. As the story goes on, Usher become agitated. At the climatic point in the story, Usher reveals his sister is not dead and she bursts in the room and dies, then Usher dies.

The House of Usher is fallen.

Answer 4

This guy goes to this house.

In the house there lives a really sick guy, and his sister.

The sister's pretty ghostly and pale.

The visitor guy is scared of the house.

Something happens.

The house implodes upon itself.

The end.

Answer 5

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