Lenore Usher is Roderick’s granddaughter and the only good-hearted Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher. Lenore Usher is played by Kyliegh Curran.
Roderick has six children, but he only has one grandchild, Lenore, the daughter of his oldest son, Frederick. Lenore is nothing like her family. She is kind, loving, and a good person.
She is the only Usher who does not justify all the evil things that her family has done. She asks her grandfather to fix things and to let Fortunato go, even if that means losing all their wealth. However, Lenore also has to pay the price for her grandfather’s sins.
An act of courage
Prospero invites Lenore’s mother, Morella, to his party. He plans to seduce her to get back at Frederick, her husband. He also gives her a burner phone. Initially, Morella is scandalized by his invitation, but she later gets convinced to attend the party.
Although Verna warns her to leave the party, Morella fails to get out of there before the acid rain. Morella survives and is taken to the hospital. She is covered in bandages from head to toe and has to be kept in the ICU.
When Frederick is given the burner phone, he feels betrayed by his wife. He keeps thinking about whether his wife has been cheating on him or not. He becomes obsessed with the idea and starts doing drugs. He decides to take Morella home instead of letting her stay at the hospital.
At a time like this, it is Lenore who stays by her mother’s side. Lenore looks after Morella and keeps asking her father to arrange doctors for her mother, but Frederick never brings the specialists that he had promised.
In fact, he locks Morella into a room and cruelly mutilates her. He forbids Lenore from visiting Morella. Lenore notices that Frederick has changed and becomes suspicious.
When Frederick refuses to listen to her suggestions about getting Morella the care that she needs, Lenore decides to take matters into her own hands. She defies her father and goes to her mother’s room to see her.
Lenore comes to know what her father has done to her mother and calls the police. Arthur Pym tries to intimidate her into taking back the statement that she had given to the police, but he fails because Lenore is determined to make her father pay. Morella is finally taken to the hospital to recover.
Lenore’s death
When Roderick tells Dupin about his life and what he has done to achieve immense wealth and power, Lenore keeps messaging him. However, Dupin soon finds out that Lenore died earlier that night. Lenore’s death hurt Roderick more than the loss of any of his children.
Roderick has been getting messages from Madeline’s sentient AI project that scans a person’s social media to make a digital version of them. Madeline had been using Lenore as a beta test, and her bot got activated that day.
The Usher bloodline had to die because of Roderick and Madeline’s deal with Verna, so Verna had to kill Lenore. She enjoyed killing the other Ushers, but Lenore’s death brings her no pleasure.
Before killing her, Verna tells Lenore about the consequences of her actions. She tells her that it will take Morella three years, but she will recover and go on to save millions of lives around the world.
Morella will inherit a lot of money after the collapse of Fortunato. She will give away most of it to charities, but she will keep some of it to start a non-profit that will be called Lenore Foundation. Morella will be able to help so many people only because her daughter showed courage and saved her life.
While Roderick’s choices did nothing but kill millions of people, Lenore’s choices did the opposite of that. At a very young age, Lenore was able to make a difference in a lot of people’s lives. With a heavy heart, Verna gives Lenore a painless death.
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