In "The Fall of the House Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe, the paragraphs at the beginning really set the mood for the rest of the story and are quite effective for what is to come. The atmosphere is disturbing, sinister and horror, both in sound and words, and it contributes to creating this atmosphere. He does this using a very complex and dark vocabulary. The author exaggerated this story to show a problem that all people have within themselves. Which in this case is that one has madness within oneself. The narrator mercifully went to Rodrick's Usher house after receiving a letter from him. Once he arrives, the narrator spends most of his time describing the house as feeling "cold, sinking, sickening of the heart" (1553). However, as the narrator enters, his view of the house worsens: "An air of severe, deep, and irredeemable gloom hung over and pervaded all" (1555) of the house. Next, he meets Rodrick Usher who begins babbling nonsense: “I feel that I must inevitably abandon life and reason together in my struggles with some fatal demon of fear” (1556). This is the first sign of m...