This detail in the story assures the reader that the narrator is out of touch with reality. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a story that does not use the typical first-person point of view where the protagonist tells a personal account of a crime he committed. The narrator, on the other hand, is a character we know very little about, who behaves like an observer. Roderick's friend invites the reader into the madness of the mind between fantasy and reality. In this description Poe is setting a tone where you begin to see that Roderick Usher is going crazy. Roderick sees and hears that they are not there. The tone created is a dark and disturbing atmosphere. The icky tone and creepy mood together help show the reader the sanity of the people and how the house is falling apart. While the main character Roderick starts to go crazy and slowly makes the narrator feel like he is hearing and seeing imaginary things. The narrator of the story is unnamed throughout the story of Roderick's friend Usher. Roderick calls the narrator a madman. "Usher's condition was rationally terrified, it infected me... I felt creeping upon me, in slow but uncertain degrees, the savage influence of his fantastic but impressive superstitions" (Modern Library,