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What conflict might the underlined passage foreshadow?
of soul
During a dull dark, and soundless day in autumn, when
the clouds hung oppressively low, I had been passing alone,
horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country. At
length I found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on,
within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how
It was but with the first glimpse
erable loom pervaded my spirit. I looked upon the scene
of the building, a sense of
hree coon the mere house, upon the vacant eye-like
before me-upon
windows, upon a few rank marsh plants, and upon a few white
trunks of decayed trees-with an utter depression of
which I can compare to no earthly sensation. There was an
iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart-an unredeemed
dreariness which no goading of the Imagination could
transform into something sublime. What was it, I paused to
think, what was it that so unnerved me about the House of
Usher?
Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to
spend several weeks. Its owner, Roderick Usher, had been one
of my friends in boyhood. Many years had passed since we last
met. A letter, however, had reached me in a distant part of the
country-a letter which had required nothing less than a
personal reply. Usher's letter spoke of illness-of a mental
disorder which oppressed him-and of an earnest desire to see
me, as his best and indeed his only personal friend. His desire
was that through my cheerfulness I could help to alleviate his
OA Roderick will die, leaving the house to the narrator, who will fix it up and sell it for profit.
ОВ.
The house's vacant eye-like windows and the decayed" landscape will mirror Roderick's mental state.
Ос. The house will undergo a full renovation under the narrator's direction, much to the owner's dismay
OD The gloomy effect of the house will challenge the narrator's attempts to cheer his friend
E. Roderick will move, leaving his friend in charge of complicated legal matters regarding its sale.
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