Tell Tale Hearts Sparknotes

The ‘’tell-tale hearts’’ is a short story written by the famous author, Edger Allen Poe. But today we will be reading a literary analysis, on why the tell-tale hearts is a horror story. The authors use of imagery, suspense, and allegory to create a horror fell is most important, in our process of deducing the stories true behind, in it all.
The narrator in this story talks about how is he hunted by the eye of the old man the he lives with, the eye described as a pale blue eye, with a film over it, and that it reminded the narrator of a vaulters eye, blood rains cold whenever it fell upon our dear narrator. The narrator then decides to kill the old man, but he can’t do this without looking only at the old mans eye and without looking at his face. I think that the authors use of both imagery and allegory to describe the old
And the narrator’s fixation on the vulture eye is an added bones, the narrator talks about how vultures pray on the dead this could be the symbolism the narrator takes towards the eye. ‘’How wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.’’ This on its own is pretty creepy, I mean who talks about how nice he is to someone before killing them. the narrator watches the old man sleep for 7 days to shine a thin ray of light the old man’s eye until the old man hears the narrator’s foot steps, and wakes up calling “who is there” now you might think the narrator ran a way but no he stayed ,for that it was so dark that that the