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The aim of this essay is to illuminate the theme of endless reversals illustrated in Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. This tale is very exceptional in Poe's fictions. But it has some characteristics common with his other works. Poe's Gothic tales develop from a satiric mode into a philosophical concern with the ironical man's fate and the perverse universe. The fictional structure is so ironically twisted that the form itself, even the plot, approaches an absurd hoax on the character and the readers. In this perspective the essay will examine Poe's vision of the universe and of man's fate and also explore the structural characteristics in this narrative.