Similarities of The Fall of the House of Usher and A Rose for Emily
The stories The Fall of the House of Usher and A Rose for Emily have very important similarities. As you read both stories you see that both of them have an atmosphere that contains lots of suspense. The main characters of the stories are very distant from society with this I mean that they live in there own world (their houses). And in of each story the main character dies. This are some of the many that similarities that both of the stories have.
In The Fall of the House of Usher we have an atmosphere of suspense just when Roderick begins to describe the mansion of Usher which makes the reader think that in that mansion something bad is about to happen. As we continue reading the story the suspense gets even worse when Usher buries her sister alive without mentioning it to Roderick. Compared to A Rose for Emily the readers feel suspense when Emily buys arsenic without answering the pharmacist the reason she is buying it and when the narrator talks about the door that has been closed for 40 years. As we continue reading the stories we see that Usher lives in a mansion in the hills that is very distant from the urban area that Roderick comes from. And Emily lives in a urbanization type of place but does not leave her house after all the things she is been through and only her servant is the one that goes out to buy groceries.
The last event in which both stories are similar is when the main characters die. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Usher dies when his sister jumped over him leaving Roderick all scared. While in A Rose for Emily, Emily died in one of the downstairs room. In conclusion, both stories have incredible similarities which makes them different from others, because not all stories share many similarities. For this reason people should read both of this stories so they can compare the stories adding different point of views. The different point of views are important just because it can help people read the story from a different perspective.
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