In the end he is absolutely unable to deny the absurdity of the events and has to escape. Time and place are the two parts of the setting; in The Fall of the House of Usher the space setting helps the reader follow the narrator through his journey to discover the mental illness that Roderick Usher had and shows the drastic change in the narrator's mind due to the illness. The setting in relation to time helps to foreshadow this fate, as the story takes place in autumn which symbolizes the end of summer and the beginning of the dead months of winter, this links directly to the narrator as his state of The rational soul is condemned. end with the conclusion of this