![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although her health continues to fail, Madeline insists she’ll find an escape-until Roderick returns and succumbs to illness himself. ![]() Roderick refuses to believe in the curse and goes away to school, leaving Madeline alone to deal with a seemingly sentient and malevolent house that prevents her exit by increasingly violent means (a suit of armor throws an axe when she considers a garden walk, the drapes attempt to smother her as she looks longingly out a window). The following chapters flash back to Madeline’s perspectives at various ages-eighteen, nine, fifteen, eleven-as she grapples with the family curse that eventually drives both her parents (and, apparently, her brother) insane. Griffin’s revision of “The Fall of the House of Usher” begins inside the coffin in which eighteen-year-old Madeline finds herself buried alive, screaming her throat raw hoping her brother Roderick-who entombed her-will relent. ![]()
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