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What message might Edgar Allan Poe want to convey in “The Fall of the House of Usher?”

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I think Edgar Allan Poe wants to associate the sick man and the old house. The disillusionment and deterioration of the house can be like death to a dying man. The house is where he and his family were raised and the man's death signified the end of his family's line.


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