Criticism to Tell Tale Heart

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe is a short story published in 1843. It is about a madman confessing a murder .Like his other stories,this one also contains a mysterious plot. The tell tale heart is a first-person narrative book although there is no exact definition of the narrator. We don’t know if it is male or female but the sense this story implicates is that narrator is probably man. At the beginning of the story,the killer claimed that he was not mad even. He supported his ideas by explaning the details of this murder. In addition, he said that no mad person was capable of doing such things but contrary to his thoughts, one can easily understand his insanity from “thus rid myself of the eye forever” as there is no rational explanation of this addiction. The author also did not clarify the relationship between the killer and the old man. He might be old man’s son, servant or neighbour. The only thing that is certain about the homicide is that the killer was neither after the old man’s wealth nor his house but the vulture blue eyes of the old man. Two possibilities came in my mind here. Firstly, they probably knew each other and got along well from “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult” and secondly, the killer could easily reach the man’s door and opened it; they were probably living in the same house. It reinforces the possibilities I mentioned before. The killer observed the old man for 7 days and in the 8th day, he decided to kill him than dismembered the body. With his overacuteness of senses, he heard the heart beats of the dead man. When the officers came, his behavior was incredibly normal. The officers were convinced by his attitudes. Then somehow, the killer felt very uncomfortable, he heard a strange noise. The more he talked to the officers, the more powerful a noise got. He could not find any way to get rid of it. With the help of his reflection to the noise, his obsession could be seen.