Poe meticulously details, from the opening paragraph through to the last, the development of the narrator's initial uneasiness into a frenzy of terror, engendered by and parallel to Usher's terrors (Wilbur p. 91). - The narrator attributes his fantasy to his subjective perceptions. We the readers never do know what is real, what is a dream or the product of mutual hysteria. "Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building" (Selected Works p. 200). - There is a split consciousness in the narrator's mind between