The fall of the house of usher

From the beginning of the story the setting is telling you exactly what is going to happen.  I could tell from the description of the house, and even the letter the Rodrick wrote to the narrator that something dark and evil was going to happen by the end of the story.  It also sets up the feel of the story really well.  If the house was kept up perfectly and everything around it was alive, the story wouldnt have had the same effect that it did.  Instead by having everything dead it created a gloomy and almost spooky feel.  Another part of the setting is when the weird glow is outside the house.  This is just a way of poe showing that there are unnatural forces at work in the story. As i said before if this story didnt have the same setting, i believe it would be a completely different story, and would not have been a very exciting read.  The setting created suspense.