BLOG GROUP 3 CREATE: Katie Lynch

The Roderick Usher Painting I will be referencing is “The Girl Who Knew Too Much”.  The narrator speaks of Roderick’s ever downward spiraling mind. The loss of his sister is too much for him to bare and he starts believing he sees her and that she is coming for him. The painting “The Girl Who Knew Too Much” creates the parallel of both Roderick’s delusions and his sisters knowledge of just how cursed the family is. In “The Fall of the House of Usher we see this when the Narrator says“Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and ​have​ heard it. Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours,
many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not—oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!—I dared not—I dared not speak! ​We have put her living in the tomb!​ Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them—many, many days ago—yet I dared not—​I dared not speak!​ “. The quote makes you see the picture of Roderick looking around speaking of the cries or noises of his sister, believing that she has been buried alive and has come back to get him. His painting “The Girl Who Knew Too Much” shows a girl that seems to be coming out of the wall determined to be heard, perhaps a lonely girl in search of companionship from her brother, her best friend. Calling out to the person she needs to listen to her, to save her. But also I see it as a warning to Roderick, that he needs to be very careful because he too is cursed to have this same fate crumbling into non existence.