Who is Lady Madeline in Poe's short story 'The Fall of the House of Usher'?
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Lady Madeline

Lady Madeline is Roderick Usher's twin sister. She is sick with a disease called catalepsy. One with this disease is in a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli. The narrator of the short story and Roderick assume that Madeline is dead (since she doesn't move) and proceed to entomb her for two weeks. She later walks through Roderick's bedroom door, falls on her brother and dies... and then so does Roderick.

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