Edgar Allan Poe

After reading both Edgar Allan Poe's stories, "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher", it is evident that both characters Roderick Usher and Montresor are very similar. The characters' similarities are not only in their actions but also in their personalities. And though it is not that clear at first, after carefully examining both characters and in what manners they behave, their personalities become evidently similar. For both of these characters their personalities have emerged through the situations that have occurred recently within their lives. Poe has a repetitious theme of having his main characters gloomy. This is shown in both his stories that are being compared within this essay. Usher and Montresor are both alike in many ways. Their personalities seem to be both insane, mysterious, and family oriented.…