The Fall of the House of Usher

describe madeleine usher and the symptoms of her illness. how does she seem to interact with roderick and the narrator

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Before the narrator gets to the house, Madeline has fallen into a catatonic state.We really have to question if Madeline actually existed. Madeline can be seen as kind of like a doppelganger of Roderick: kind of like Norman Bates and his mother in the movie Psycho. Perhaps Madeline's return from the dead is only a metaphor of Roderick's fears. In any case, Madeline serves as a plot device to give a manifestation to Roderick's fears and anxieties.