Tell-Tale Heart, one of the most famous stories written by Edgar Allen Poe. It talks about the narrator and his neighbor the old man. The narrator dislikes the old man not that he is a mean and unfriendly person, but …show more content…
Telling about the old man and how he was a good friend to him. Sadly, the narrator gets stuck on the old man's eye. Slowly the story builds suspense, let's it fall a little bit, then builds it even more and then he breaks. Poe has a way with words that shows his readers the dark side of humans. Although the story shows that the narrator is obviously insane, Poe published this story for a reason.
In 1843, Poe published Tell-Tale Heart. What pushed Poe to write this shell-shocking story was because his beloved wife Virginia was sick with tuberculosis and Poe was struggling to find a job. Eventually, Poe was believed to be diagnosed with brain fever. Poe was super stressed out at this point in life and still wrote his best stories, even though they didn't make him much money.
Charles Dickens tried to help Poe by trying to publish his stories in Europe. It didn't go through very well but Poe still pushed one. With only days to live, as was diagnosed by the doctors, Poe grieved the loss of his beloved wife and composed more wonderful stories. Hard times helped Poe show his readers humans have a darker side than what they think. With all this death so close to him, he published more stories and put his feelings into words and created a