Prepositions indicate direction, time, location, and spatial relationships, as well as other abstract types of relationships.
Prepositions indicate relationships between other words in a sentence.
Many prepositions tell you where something is or when something happened.
As the name suggests they generally tell position if something. Like, behind, front, on, at etc.
Usher's madness begins to increase because he can hear the sound of Madeline below.
Even though his sister is buried in the basement, he can constantly hear her scratching her coffin. He was tortured by these sounds until the protagonist came to visit him so he could share his troubles with him. Usher is afraid of his 'undead' sister and of dying himself, which is why he grows crazier and crazier by the day, until he is finally killed by his own sister in the end.
To establish a sense of curiosity, to get them to read more