In Poes The Fall of the House of Usher the narrator first views the house of Usher and perceives a mystery incapable of being solved Foreboding imaginings keep coming into his mind in spite of rational thinking and reasoning As he says there are things beyond our ability to rationalize He rationalizes that if he could look at things differently or in a brighter light he might be able to change it but when he looks into the lake he sees with even more fear before a mirror image of the house in a