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Answer:
The narrator uses negative feelings when he looks at the House of Usher. He feels scared and that there is an anti-sublime qualities to the house. The tarn, the mist, the fissure running down the house, no traversal he had seen on his journey shows how away from reality this house is.
Explanation:
'What a puppet thing life is' means that 'the course of life is determined by pure chance'.