Danvers is equivalent to the evil stepsisters, trying to destroy the main character. ... This foreshadows the evil intentions of Mrs. ... Another symbol that reoccured throughout the story was the big slanting R. ...

• Word Count: 1831
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Character and events are exaggerated beyond reality to become symbols, ideas and passions. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while subjecting both his good and evil characters to the powers of the devil. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Character and events are exaggerated beyond reality to become symbols, ideas and passions. ... Lewis offers the reader a continuing extravaganza of horrid shock while subjecting both his good and evil characters to the powers of the devil. ...

• Word Count: 1271
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The narrator writes that the house seems to have collected an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. ... Just as the atmosphere and landscape seem translated into the characters, the house, as another aspect of setting, functions as a symbol for the Usher family. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School