Participant Narrator in Poe

In almost every story you read, the narrator tries to grab a hold of your attention. They will try and use different points of view to accomplish capturing your interest. In the story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, he is a participant narrator that draws the reader’s attention in numerous ways.
To begin, the narrator in, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, does not use the typical, first person point of view where the protagonist tells a personal account of a crime that he or she has committed. Instead, the narrator is a character of which we know little about, who acts like a participant. One way the narrator acts like a participant that draws you closer, is when he helps Usher bury Madeline. The narrator responds to Usher’s request for the burial “I personally aided him in the arrangements for the temporary entombment. The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest”(780). The way the narrator takes pa...