Roderick Usher and his family house in Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" are similar because they are both decrepit and isolated; their fates also merge at the end of the story. When the narrator enters the house and sees Roderick (for the first time in years), he is shocked by the man's appearance. The house is described as "melancholy" and the narrator is immediately overcome with "a sense of insufferable gloom" as he observes the manor from a short distance.
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