Question

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?

Answer 1

The given excerpt mirrors the struggles that the narrator face between dreamlike state and reality.

Step-by-step explanation:

'The Fall of the House of Usher' is a short Gothic story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is about an unnamed narrator who visits the house of his friend named Roderick Usher.

Entring the Usher's mansion, the narrator sensed an evil aura in the house. The story unfolds its spookiness after Usher's sister died.

In the given excerpt, the narrator is struggling between the dreamlike and state and reality. This struggle of the narrator is evidently seen throughout the story. So, it mirrors the narrators struggle between his dreamlike state and reality.