Summary Of The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

In the excerpt from “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe creates the mysterious character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of the character’s internal thoughts, actions, and motivations. Poe illustrates a story about guilty conscience and reveals that when you have a guilty conscience, it can lead to insanity like the narrator who killed a man leaving him guilty and suspicious. The narrator wasn’t scared or worried after he killed the man or when the police came to investigate. Instead he was calm and convinced the police he wasn’t suspicious. Poe expressed the narrator’s suspicious and mysterious character by using different components. One component was the constant internal thoughts the