Palatine, IL – Reading with Jimmy, the online platform dedicated to making classic literature accessible and relevant, has released a provocative new analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. In this reading, Jim Nowakowski (a.k.a Jimmy) argues that Roderick Usher is not a tragic victim of madness but a cold-blooded murderer who knowingly entombs his sister alive. “I don’t want to rain on any Gothic parade interpretations,” Nowakowski says, “but this is not simply a tale of decay or supernatural dread. It’s the story of a narrator who hopes to gain something from his wealthy friend, Roderick Usher—and of Roderick’s deliberate act of sealing Madeline away. If her burial was…