Incest in Literature: "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

The Fall of the House of Usher and The Rocking-Horse Winner
<Tab/>D.H. Lawrence, author of The Rocking-Horse Winner, grew up in a blue collar family only to disregard his past and become a prolific writer. Most of his fiction, specifically The Rocking-Horse Winner, is about characters caught between their unsatisfactory relationships with others and their struggle to break free. Edgar Allen Poe, author of The Fall of the House of Usher, grew up in an aristocratic environment when he was adopted by a merchant at the age of three because his mother had died. Similarly to Lawr…