Poe

The narrator is used i think to add the extra bit of fear to Poe's readers. He already had the scary house and the Ushers family with mental sickness to put fear into the reader. With the narrator it brings in a friend that is an outsider of the family of late. This adds to the story because of his lack of experience with the family and the hose brings out his own fears and superstitions that are going on and when the narrator gets scared if the readers are into the story they will start to feel the scary plot themselves.

Poe's gothic differs to me in that it focuses on the house a lot (it is like this in his other writings are well). The other stories we have read they have been about a character (mostly women) over coming aspects in their lives to make it in a man's society. This one puts emphasis on the surroundings as well as the character to portray an evil spirit as to say the house is evil and takes over the characters instead of the characters being evil themselves.