Read the excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe.
Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building.
How does this statement mirror what happens in the rest of the story?
The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.
Poe emphasizes the role of dreams through the character of Madeline.
Poe enjoys creating characters who spend a great deal of time dreaming.
The ending of the story reveals much of the action to have been a dream.
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The statement mirrors what happens in the rest of the story as the narrator continues to question the boundary between reality and dream, and as the events that unfold in the House of Usher become increasingly surreal and dreamlike. The line between what is real and what is imagined becomes blurred, contributing to the overall atmosphere of madness and uncertainty in the story.
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The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.
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