e is terrified by merely the sight of the house, “With the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit” and that could have triggered his unclear perception of the coming events. Poe develops the narrator’s early uneasiness into a frenzy of terror. Although the narrator tries to view everything in a rational manner, upon seeing the house and it’s surroundings, he has a heightened sense of superstition.The narrator is telling us a story of the Ushers and their house, when it is actually the story of his mental state. Madeline and Usher each represent a part of the mind and the narrator represents reason. This is evident because he refuses to accept anything he hears, sees, or senses. Even though he notices “a faint blush upon the bosom and the face” of Madeline, the narrator still continues to bury Madeline, because he refuses to accept what he sees.In both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the narrator’s perceptions of events give the readers a completely different sense of events then what is actually taking place. Gilman’s narrator tells us that she is living in a house with her husband, when she is actually in a mental hospital with a doctor. Likewise, Poe uses his narrator to tell the reader a story of the Ushers, when the story is really about the Narrator’s mind and it’s insanity....
