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Discuss ways in which these authors differ in style. Refer to specific details from each story to support your points. from “The Fall of the House of Usher”
by Edgar Allan Poe

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-day life—the hideous dropping off of the veil.

Source: Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” The Fall of the House of Usher. Project Gutenberg, June 1997. Web. 12 May 2011.

from “A Pair of Silk Stockings”
by Kate Chopin

The play was over, the music ceased, the crowd filed out. It was like a dream ended. People scattered in all directions. Mrs. Sommers went to the corner and waited for the cable car.

Source: Chopin, Kate. “A Pair of Silk Stockings.” The Awakening and Selected Short Stories. Project Gutenberg, 11 Mar. 2006. Web. 12 May 2011.

I'll just jot down my comparison and contrast.

“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
- Gothic style writing is uses which creates a gloomy and suspenseful scenario.
- Narrative story and uses first person point of view
- uses a lot of imagery

“A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin
- Narrative story and uses third person point of view.

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barbaralazarotto barbaralazarotto · Answer 2 · 2019-01-22T11:35:17+01:00

Edgar Allan Poe has a unique aesthetic style, he uses morbid themes like nightmares, death, crime, and evil. He adopts a Gothic technique in a composition. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Allan Poe used psychological shocks to tell the story about a house that has absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere.

Kate Chopin is a writer that is known for her stories of sensitive women. She has an emancipating style of writing - some call it feminism -. She uses a lot of symbolism, strong characters, and morals. “A Pair of Silk Stockings” story is another example of the use of symbolism by the author, the silk stockings represent luxury.

Comparing both passages you can notice that Allan Poe describes all the details from nature and from the House of Usher to create this gothic mysterious atmosphere. On the other way around, on the passage from “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” you can notice clearly the symbolism of everything in the story like “the music ceased the crowd filed out, like a dream”.