Troubles question

It's been about 300 years since I read Usher, but are you talking about how the hotel seems to be one of the main characters, as though it has a personality of it's own? He definitely borrows his atmospherics from the gothic novels of 18th and 19th centuries.

How much of an influence do you mean...

Perhaps in the detailing..but from what I can tell the story itself is much more historical and classic. Not that Poe isn't classic but his stories are a bit more mischievous if you will. Admittedly,I haven't read it but the reviews seem to imply that any influence would just be wallpaper on a completely different tale. My words not theirs,its merely what I thought of while reading them.

Interesting idea. I certainly can see a resemblance between the two stories. Thanks for sharing.

I get what you mean--a house so evil that it destroys itself. I think Farrell wanted the house to be a symbol of the British Empire in its waning years--doomed to die a slow death, suffocated by its own clulessness, bigotry, and provinciality--much like the Majestic Hotel in the novel, being slowly choked by the tropical plants in its palm court, and by the Irish rebellion going on around it. I dont see much political or satiric content in Poes story.