Story of Consciousness - As in other of Poe's gothic tales, the delusiveness of the experience is rendered in and through the consciousness of the narrator, so that we participate in his Gothic horror while we are, at the same time, detached observers of it. In the image of the house as skull or death's head and the merging of the narrator's face with the face of the house, which is also Usher's face in the pool, we see once again in Poe the subtly ironic paralleling of narrative construction of the tale to its visual focal point and by