I have always been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe and his many works, but I have never really taken one of his stories and looked at it from an analytical perspective, until now. The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of my favorites. It is the story of a murder told from the killer’s own eyes. The story begins with the narrator (the killer) trying to convince the reader that he is not “mad”. He says that he will prove that he is not crazy by how calmly he tells the story, and by how well he committed the murder. The man that the narrator killed was an old man that lived with him who had cataracts. The eye with the blue film over it bothered the killer so much that he decided that he had to kill the old man just to get rid of the eye that vexed him so much. After he killed the man he took off his arms, legs and his head and stuffed him underneath the planks of the floor. The police soon showed
The character of the narrator of this story is so worried about convincing people that he is not crazy, and he should be. The narrator could not possibly have had a good head on his shoulders as the saying goes. He was willing to kill a man, but not because the old man had done any wrong towards him, but because he had what the narrator called a “vulture eye” that had a blue film over it. There is obviously something wrong with a person if they kill someone because they don’t like having to look at a person’s eye that has cataracts. The narrator thought that everything would be ok as long as he was able to hide all of the evidence. This shows that he was not able to think through all of the consequences of his actions, and even after he has killed a man and is telling his account of what happened he is still trying to convince people that what he did was rational. This proves that his mental state
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