The House of Usher The new criticism has nothing to do with the biography of the author but what the literature means to the reader. In the story “House of Usher” Roderic and his sister Madeline are suffering from an intermarriage of the family. The usher family was endanger of there extinction of there race. Roderic suffers from” a morbid acuteness of the senses”. Madeline suffers from depression that makes her look like she has …showed first 75 words of 705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 705 total…silent. The thoughts in the story from a persons point of view may very if the reader does not think of the author who has wrote the story. Many people have different points of view of the story “House of Usher” and with the new criticism its easy to say that this story was very critical. “House of Usher” is one of those stories that makes the mind think of what the story is really