In many respects Roderick in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” appears to be mad, yet at the end of the story he calls the narrator a “madman,” the very char

In many respects Roderick in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” appears to be mad, yet at the end of the story he calls the narrator a “madman,” the very character that most readers identify with as being sane. If madness is a part of this story, what kind of statement does Poe seem to be making about it? Just how is he defining it and who is really “mad” in the story?