At the end of the story, Lady Madeline came through the gates and ended up killing Roderick. “There was blood on his white robes and traces of a fierce struggle on every part of his emaciated body. For a moment she stood trembling and tottering on the threshold, then, with a dull, groaning cry, she fell heavily on her brother's person and, in her violent and now final agonies, carried him to the ground. corpse and victim of the terrors he had anticipated. Poe's romantic Gothic style shines through in all the ghostly feeling of the