Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building . . .

In this excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” how does the statement mirror what happens in the rest of the story?

A.The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.

B.Poe enjoys creating characters who spend a great deal of time dreaming.

C.The ending of the story reveals much of the action to have been a dream.

D.Poe emphasizes the role of dreams through the character of Madeline.