Examples Of Foreshadowing In The Fall Of The House Of Usher

Foreshadowing in “The Fall of the House of Usher” In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Edgar Allen Poe uses foreshadowing to entice the readers and to hint at future events that may occur later on in the story. An example in the story in which Poe uses the setting, particularly the “melancholy House of Usher”, to foreshadow the story’s outcome can be found in the final paragraph on page 63. In this paragraph, the narrator expresses his anxiety as he approaches the eerie, crumbling, and unsettling mansion. His description of “the crumbling condition of the individual stones” foreshadows the eventual downfall of the Usher family. The fact that the house is decaying also foreshadows the deterioration of Roderick Usher’s mind as he battles his