Tall Tale Heart Suspense

The Tall Tale Heart Summary

How scared would you be if a creepy man would come and stare at you while you sleep. The man waiting for the perfect day to finally not have to deal with the evil looking eye. This is just what the narrator was trying to do. In the story the main character knows this old man with a evil looking eye and he wants to get rid of it. The only way to do that was to kill him, Well that's what the narrator thought. So he would stare at the old man while he slept for many days until finally he murdered him by putting his mattress on top of him until he died. Cut of his limbs and took his heart. Then put his body in the floor. A little bit after that the the policemen came to the old man's

For example, the reader can feel the suspense when he writes, “ And when the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out who's there” (Poe 91)? And when he writes “ I kept quiet and said nothing for a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lay down” (Poe 91).It is evident that the old man was scared because even though the man watching him was quiet and didn't move the old man still was not laying down. The reason he was scared because Poe further said that the narrator “Thumb slipped upon the tin fastening.”(Poe 91).Poe creates more suspense when he says “ I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted” (Poe 94). This shows anxiety the main character has and he was scared that they would find out that he killed the old man and that he has his beating heart. It also makes the reader wonder if he will get

For example, Jacobs writes “ Yes he was stone, stone dead”(Poe 93). This shows repetition by repeating the word “stone” to show that the old man was really “dead”. Also to build suspense because the narrator of the story really killed the old man. After the narrator killed the man he sat down with police and when they were talking, Poe put in “ It grew louder, I say, louder every moment Do you mark me well”(Poe 92)? The thing that grew “louder” was the old man's heart and it shows the reader that the beating kept on getting more “louder”. That part of the story grew more suspense because we don't know yet if the policemen can hear the heart beating or if the narrator is just