Student

English 3X

Mrs. Carroll

3 November 2017

The narrator is unbelievable because he seems to exaggerate what he says is happening.

At the end when Usher dies and the narrator is trying to leave, “While I gazed, this fissure

whirlwind - the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight - my brain reeled as I saw

the mighty walls rushing asunder - there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the vice of a

thousand waters - and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed suddenly and silently over the

fragments of the ‘ House of Usher’” (333). This quote shows that he might have gone a little

crazy is over exaggerating. This is important because it shows that maybe most of what he said

could have been a lie. He could have gone crazy like Roderick Usher. As the narrator is reading

he heard weird sounds, “At the termination of this sentence I stared, and for a moment, paused;

for it appeared to me (although I at once concluded that my excited fancy had deceived me)- it

appeared to me that, from some vary remote portion of the mansion, there came, indistinctly, to

my ears, what might have been, in its exact similarity of character, the echo (but a stifled and

dull one certainly) of the vary cracking and ripping sound which sir Launcelot had particularly

described” (332). This quote shows the narrator is reading, and he began hearing things outside

his room. This is important because him going crazy may show that he might not be seeing

everything he is saying, it could just be in his head.