"Fall of the House of Usher"-setting and point of view

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Setting - the context in which the action of the story occurs using time, place, and social environment

The opening line of the short story, "dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year" (3). Poe does a very nice job of setting up the setting in "The Fall of the House of Usher." The story takes place, with great detail, in the House of Usher, the apartments upstairs where Roderick and the narrator live, the vault where Roderick's sister is laid rest, and finally out side when the narrator is running away from the house because the house is being according to the text, "rushed asunder" (25).

Point of View

The story has to be written in objective point of view. The reader is told in the story not what is being thought and/or felt; rather, is supplied the story through actions and dialogue so that the reader can think and feel for his/her self. In the story, the moon is blood red and the house falls apart. The reader is not told how the narrator feels about this event, this feeling is left to the reader.