"A Tell-Tale Heart" was destined to be as whacky as it was due to the author being Edgar Allan Poe. It is clear that the narrator of the story is crazy, driven mad by the old man's odd eye. The eye is described as being like the eye of a vulture, pale and blue with a film over it. It made the blood of the narrator run cold. But why is there such fixation on the eye? The narrator seems to be letting something as worthless, and as harmless as an eyeball determine that the old man must be killed so that the suffering will cease for the narrator.
The identity of the narrator is never revealed. The way that the narrator was able to sneak around the house and also creep in and out of the old man's room makes a person wonder if the narrator is a female. If true, it is likely that the narrator would be quiet and light on foot. However, in this time period, a woman would have to be very specialized in order to know how to move and replace floor boards, and would also have to kill a man and chop his body into pieces.
I believe that the narrator was very concise, possibly a victim of an obsessive compulsive disorder. The way everything was planned for the murder, and the articulation of details of getting away with it were far planned out. The narrator knew that they had to make a clean kill, and the execution was precise.
The narrator acted very normal and sane when the police arrived. Surprisingly, the craziness was set aside, and everything was seeming to work out for the narrator. The beating heart that grew louder in his head diminished the chances of not getting caught. It seems that the madness could not subside long enough.
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