a loud knock at the door and at that moment the climax is Madeline at the door embodied in blood from scratching her way out of the coffin. The narrator at that moment realizes they buried her alive and looks to Roderick for answers and he is sitting in complete terror so much that he could not look at Madeline, as he realizes that death has come for him. Madeline proceeds to walk towards Roderick and fall on him, the reader you assume that she begins to eat him but the narrator flees in fear of death. “A gust of wind blew the doors, and there did stand the enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline...There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold, then with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon…her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse…”.Suddenly the wrath of the storm increased, and the mansion began to shake and crumble. The friend frantically fled from the chamber and from out of that mansion. Only once did he turn to glance back, when his attention was arrested by a wild light…”The radiance was that of the full setting...blood red moon, which now show vividly through that once barely discernible fissure…” “ There was a loud explosion, and the walls of the mansion came crashing down. Deep and dank tarn.. closed sullenly and silently of over the fragments of the House of Usher. Poe introduces three characters: Lady Madeline, Roderick Usher, and the narrator, whose name is never give.Lady Madeline, twin sister of Roderick Usher, does not speak one word throughout the story. In fact, she is absent from most of the story, and she and the narrator do not stay together in the same room. At the narrator’s arrival, she takes to her bed and galls into a catatonic state....
