Read the excerpt from poe’s "the fall of the house of usher." for several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either usher or myself: and during this period i was busied in earnest endeavours to alleviate the melancholy of my friend. what does this excerpt reveal about the narrator of the story?

"and these i address to all females that would be married, or are already so; not that i suppose their sex more faulty than the other, and most to want advice, for i assure [women], upon my honour, i believe the quite contrary; but the reason is, because i esteem them better disposed to receive and practice it, and therefore am willing to begin, where i may promise myself the best success." this statement from franklin's "rules and maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness" best demonstrates his use of criticism to argue his point his use of common sense to appeal to women his use of flattery to gain women's attention his use of facts to prove his point