Read the passage.
Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building . . .
In this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” how does the statement mirror what happens in the rest of the story?
The ending of the story reveals much of the action to have been a dream.
Poe enjoys creating characters who spend a great deal of time dreaming.
The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.
Poe emphasizes the role of dreams through the character of Madeline.
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The statement mirrors what happens in the rest of the story because the narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality. Throughout the story, the line between dream and reality is blurred, and the narrator often questions what is truly happening in the House of Usher. The passage captures this theme of uncertainty and the narrator's struggle to differentiate between what is real and what may just be a product of his imagination.
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