The Purloined Letter And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe style of writing has been termed to employ mystery and a hint of comedy in his characters. He is also able to create characters that complete the message and theme that he is trying to capture. In the stories “The Purloined Letter” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” some striking similarities and differences can be analyzed and discussed. Based on the two stories, similarities have been identified in the way that the writer creates the overall environment and atmosphere, the creation of two characters that identify with each other, and the use of the main characters as narrators in the two stories. All these elements provide the two stories with a form of singularity from the writer’s perspective and help the reader identify with the similarities that exist in the stories. It remains to be confirmed whether the author did this on purpose or it was a purely random coincidence. …show more content…
In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” there is a unique gloomy feel in the details adding up to the depressed feel carried throughout the story. In the whole tale, there is a feeling of spookiness and mystical ambiance, and Poe uses this to bring his horror themed stories to life and captured the imagination of the reader to his notorious morbid story illustrations. In one of the opening descriptions he gives to the day, it shows how darkened and sad the mood is set, “dull, dark, melancholy, bleak…” (Poe 112) Edgar also uses the narrator to fill in and complete the same gloomy atmosphere with a thick tone of darkened sadness and presents it as ”insufferable gloom and utter depression of the soul” (Poe 123) which meticulous flows kindly with the total despair and unbearable gloomy ambiance being portrayed in the