Ask yourself certain questions about the memoir. Like, who, what, when, where, and why. Don't go off topic just write about that one specific event.
I believe the correct answer is A. Gloom and despair are
ever present dangers.
Edgar Allan Poe, even though against didactic in literature,
in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” might want to convey a
certain moral message – to be wary of the gloom and despair. In this story, the
feelings of the gloom and despair surrounding the property of the Ushers from
the very beginning allude on the gloom and the despair inside the Usher twins which
will be the death of them.
Pathos is all about emotion. Pathos are all about appealing to a person's emotions to make your point hit closer to home. For example, an article aimed at an audience of mothers may use pathos by telling a heartbreaking story of a mother and her child to convince the audience of something. Since the audience can relate to the story because they have children, the pathos is effective and they are more likely to sympathize with the point the author is trying to make. Pathos is sometimes more effective than other types of rhetoric because people are easily swayed by their emotions.
This last regret is made so bitter to Harry because, as he admits, it is his own fault he has not adequately exercised his great talent: “He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in.” In a strange parallel, it is also Harry’s fault that he developed gangrene; by not using iodine on his scratch, he allowed it to become septic and is therefore to blame for his impending death.
Viewed in this light, Harry’s predicament is self-inflicted, and is therefore a fitting punishment for his repeated acts of self-betrayal over the years. The lingering question of the story is how Harry’s situation is resolved
