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Step-by-step explanation:
Edgar Allen Poe's character Roderick Usher was considered a controversial character at the time of publication, and he remains one of the more interesting and colorful characters in the history of American literature. A large reason for this is that Roderick Usher is a strange character with a belief in the occult and psychic abilities.
On the surface, Roderick Usher, the main character of the story, is a reclusive, wealthy gentleman living with his twin sister on his family's long-held estate. He is the last descendant of a direct lineage and heir of the fortune and estate, as he has no children. He has allowed his home and land to fall into decay. He doesn't leave his house and he has no friends. The only person he counts as a friend is the protagonist, whom he has neither seen nor communicated with since childhood. Society often looks at friendless, awkward people who choose to stay single and who decide to seclude themselves at home as different or strange, and Poe's story plays on that societal view of people who live in seclusion.