The Internal Conflict of Roderick Usher In Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Roderick Usher faces a very obvious internal conflict that is the result of the intimate relationship he and his sister shared. They are twins, and the last people in their family, which has been incestuous in the past. Roderick Usher and his sister rely on each other to keep the Usher family in continuation, and when Usher …showed first 75 words of 677 total…

…showed last 75 words of 677 total…are dead together, which is the perfect ending to the story; one can’t survive without the other. When they both pass together, they’re putting the other at ease, knowing that one half won’t ever have to survive without the other again. Throughout the short story, Roderick Usher is battling an intense internal conflict, which was fueled by his sister, their relationship with each other, and the dependency on each other to survive.