The Tell-Tale Heart Insane

Have you ever been accused of being insane? Chances are you may have. Those that are reading this are probably mostly all sane. In the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" the narrator has reasoning for his actions. Many people think the way the same way that I do, they believe that the narrator is insane. There isn't enough proof for that though. In my opinion, the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is completely sane.

The narrator has a reason for his actions. In the part of the story where he goes to the old man’s room on the last night he had made a sound on the final night and the old man sat up, that’s when he said, '"Who’s there?' I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime, I did not hear him lie down”(2). The narrator The narrator did this to stay hidden and unseen by the old man, but the old man never went back to sleep.

What he heard was his guilt. The heartbeat was probably his own growing anxious that there were three cops in the room where he killed a man the night before. And that man's body was underneath the floorboards. The heartbeat was a metaphor for his guilt boiling over. He felt guilty for the murder he had just committed. His sense of guilt made him hear the "heartbeat" and he ended up confessing to his crime because of it.

To sum this all up, the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is completely sane. Those reading this are probably mostly all sane. In the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator is apparently insane. I strongly disagree with that, because he had a reason for his actions. Others will say he heard the dead man's heartbeat when the police were in his house and had a massive freakout. One that was way too exaggerated for natural life. Again this fails to consider the sound that the narrator really heard. So next time you think someone is insane to think twice because they might