I believe that Poe made the narrator unreliable in telling his story so that we could understand his madness. All we know form the narrator is that the story takes place in an old mans home that was most likely to be a wealthy home. Also we know that the old man had a glass eye, which in my perspective symbolized the narrator’s insanity. We don’t know much about the old man besides his eye and we really don’t know who he is to the narrator. From what the narrator tells us the old mans eye drove the narrator to insanity and turning himself in to the selfless act he committed. Some of things the narrator stated helped develop the plot because some ins

I cannot say if the narrator actually killed the old man, because I don’t know if it was and illusion of his or if it was reality because he was unreliable and hard to follow. I believe the story is realistic in the sense that the loud heartbeat symbolized feelings of guilt and his conscious. I don’t think it is realistic how the police came by and acted so casual about everything, but I think Poe incorporated this into the story because it was a major turning point in the story, and it is also another form of being unreliable throughout the story. The police officers chatting brought the narrator to turn himself in from what he believed to be the perfect crime. I think that because he thought so much about killing the old man and taking so much time to do it, he believed it was a triumph but those same

thoughts brought him to his insanity. This then raises the question whether he was actually insane before or after he did he killed the old man. For all we know the story could have been the narrator’s thoughts after he killed the man, which made him insane afterwards not before the old mans death. The gothic style of Poe’s writing in this story in my opinion is of an insane man who committed a heinous crime but I think it wasn’t so much about the narrator’s insanity I think it was about Poe’s very own insanity.

I think that Poe made the narrator unreliable so that we as readers would question the difference between the narrator’s insanity and reality. We can assume that the narrator actually killed the man,

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