The second time it is brought up, the narrator is likening Roderick Usher’s voice to the sound of a “lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of Opium”.
He compares the previously mentioned depression for the soul to the “after-dream of the reveler upon Opium”. This can signal that his previous state of being was unfit and stalled him from examining his surroundings accurately.įurther into the story, the narrator makes two references to opium. After that, the narrator makes the decision to recount the actual details of the house. He mentions himself that there was a rise in his superstition and that he imagined a repressive nature to the atmosphere of the house, because he speculated that he may actually have been dreaming.
Poe’s first glimpse at the true nature of the story is revealed here, through the narrator. The clouds hang over the characters in an oppressive manner, a gloom follows them, and later, there is a more abstract notion of “utter depression of the soul”. The house is referred to as “dull, dark, and soulless”. As the first-person description of the setting starts it stirs much of melancholy and despair in the reader and the characters. The first clue appears in the narrator’s description of his surroundings.
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