The Fall of the House of Usher

The nameless narrator of the short story ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" arrives at the home of his childhood friend Roderick Usher in the opening scene. having gotten a letter from him asking for aid and complaining of being sick. Hypersensitivity and an obsessive worry about having a terrible illness are among Roderick's symptoms. It is discovered that Madeline Roderick's twin sister suffers from a similar condition and experiences death-like trances. Roderick claims to the narrator that he thinks his home is sentient and that this sentience derives from how the masonry and vegetation are arranged around it.