Do you think the narrator is a reliable witness to the events he describes? Explain.

The unnamed narrator is probably Poe's most sane protagonist. He lacks the sociopathic grandiose of Poe's other protagonists. He is reliable only as far as he is an outsider and his relation to Usher. While Usher and his house fall a part, the narrator stays objective enough to give us an account of what happens.

The narrator had to ride on horseback to get to house, which initiates the house was
located far from the ordinary world. The narrator also implied he was travelling “alone”,
enhancing the realms of the absence of people. In the text, “-- but with the first glimpse
of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” (para 1, pg 13). The
evidence endured the essence of the house putting the narrator in a despicable mood he
was unfamiliar to.