Pg. 432 1-4, 6-8

1.) He is invited by an old friend, Roderick Usher
2.) She becomes sicker than she had been and leads to death
3.) He is afraid of doctors digging up her body due to her strange disease
4.) No, it lacks the details that he uses to vividly describe the gloominess of the story.
6.) Setting  - Poe describes the room as a dark entrapment that allows little to no light in, meaning that the entire house is full of darkness.
      Character Traits - The man was a very dark type of person, who enjoyed no type of food, no music, and wore clothes of only specific texture.
    Plot Developments - Madeline becomes more sick and eventually dies
    Imagery - The wind was so great it almost brought them off the ground, and the wind storm had a rather negative feeling about it outside.
7.) Poe wrote The Fall of the House of Usher as a mirror into his own life, writing about himself as Roderick Usher and using Madeline, his wife who died at a young age, as a way to describe the dejection in his life that he felt after her death.
8.) No, I do not consider it meaningless, because to say that an author writing about himself is meaningless would deem millions of important historical articles meaningless. He simply writes about how the gloominess of life appears and indirectly describes how it affected him by allowing the reader to read the story as the narrator.