Finally, he is completely incapable of denying the absurdity of the events and must escape. Time and place are the two parts of the setting; in The Fall of the House of Usher, the spatial setting helps the reader follow the narrator through his journey to catch the mental illness that Roderick Usher suffered from and shows the drastic change in the narrator's mind following the illness. The connection with time helps to foreshadow this destiny, since the story takes place in autumn which symbolizes the end of summer and the beginning of the dead months of winter, this directly concerns the narrator to the extent that his Rational mindset is doomed to failure. end with the termination of this