Tales of Mystery and Imagination( EDGAR ALLAN POE) - 15

  "The House of Usher itself," he told me, "is like a living thing. When the walls were fisrt built, life went into the stones themselves and year after year it has grown stronger. Even tha air around the walls and above the lake has its own life, and belongs to the house. Don't you see," he cried, "how the stones and the air have shaped the lives of the Usher family?"

  These ideas were too fanastic for me, and I could not answer him.

 

주인공이 특이한 발상을 하죠. 모든 사물에 생명이 들어있다는 생각, 평범한 사람이라면 콧방귀나 뀔 생각이지만, 저자는 여기에 착안하여 자신의 생각을 이끌어 갑니다. 인간의 깊은 내면와 연결시켜 생각해보면 뭔가 특이한 감정을 느낄 수 없을까요?