Point Of View In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allen Poe

“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story created by Edgar Allen Poe. He uses the narrator’s point of view to builds a suspenseful attitude throughout. The narrator’s unhealthy mental state makes him seem crazy but he tries to say how sane he is. The point of view of the narrator is used in a unreliable fashion by the way he talks by repeating words and calling himself “clever” and “cunning” but nobody can be unhealthy but better at the same time. Also, the narrator experiences time very slowly throughout the story and he feels like his plan killing the old man takes forever. The narrator builds suspense through his mindset of time and tense, worried thoughts. The narrator builds suspense through his perception of time. At the beginning of