Reading "The Fall of the House of Usher", one may readily see the similarities of character between Roderick Usher, the main character in the story, and of Edgar Allan Poe, the author. To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave. 'I shall perish,' said he, 'I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus. . . shall I be lost. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial incident. . . this intolerble agitation of soul. . . In this unnerved--in this pitiable condition, I feel that I must inevitable abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.' (Poe 704) If one would attempt to examine the character of Roderick Usher alon with that of Edgar Allan Poe, one owuld see the above de
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