Question

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?

A.The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.

B.Poe enjoys creating characters who spend a great deal of time dreaming.

C.The ending of the story reveals much of the action to have been a dream.

D.Poe emphasizes the role of dreams through the character of Madeline.

Answer 1

A. The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.

Answer 2

The excerpt mirrors what happens in the rest of "The Fall of the House of Usher because A. The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality

Step-by-step explanation:

Poe gives a dreamlike feeling to the story from the very beginning, when the narrator contemplates the house for the first time and it feels like the after-dream of the reveller upon opium. The continouos allusion to dreams also complicates whether the sounds, scratchings and the other fantastic testimonies that Rodrick tells him are real or a product of this struggle between dreams and reality. it turns him into an unreliable narrator.