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A Brief Summary Of Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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The story “ The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe was told in first person, which was the killer in this story. He lived near an old man that he adored but had a problem with one thing, which was the old man’s eye. His eye was a pale blue and had a film like contact over his eye that bothered the narrator or the killer in this story. This eye bothered him because as he put it was that it was almost like the eye could see through him and see his soul. In the end the narrator ended up killing the old man. He then tried to hide the body under the floorboards but it started to make him mad and crazy. The heartbeat he would hear in his head was his conscious and the guilt overwhelming him. The narrator has a love and hate relationship with the old man. He loved the old man as a friend, but he did not like his eye because it creped him out. The reason he said he hated the old mans eye was because it was like his eye could see through his soul. He even said in the story he loved the old man and that he never did anything wrong to him. But sadly that since the eye creped him out so much he wanted him gone or at least just his eye gone. The very start of the story he talks about how he was sick and that he could possibly be mad or crazy. Which might be what leads him to discarding the old man. With out even thinking about how he loved the …show more content…

I saw this in the story because the outside of the old man was not how the narrator wanted him to look. Since the old mans eye bothered him so much he decided to kill him but he never thought about the generosity the old man gave him. The old man never made fun of the narrator, as said in the story the old man never insulted the narrator either, but in return the narrator decided to kill him because of how he looked on the outside. And because of the old mans eyeball the narrator killed him and ended up going to jail. This crime ended up leading to the last theme, which is the feeling of

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