By: Kareem. A
The Tell-Tale Heart is a story about a guy who is the caretaker of a old man who has a vulture like eye in which the old man gets scared and freaked out of the eye and is fed up with the old man’s stares and he goes on to commit a murder during the men's sleep.
Character trait #1 - Insane
The narrator in this story is truly a insane person, he may try to say how he is not a madman in the story but truly he is. He loves the old man as said in the book “Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult” that is clear proof that the narrator is truly insane in that he would even think about murdering all because of his eye and that was the only reason. Evidence to prove he is truly Insane is the way he had killed the old man he had loved him but yet gave him a unpleasant death by awakening him from his sleep and had to keep a light open facing the vulture eye to keep a reason for the narrator to murder the innocent man. A quote that is in the story “every night just at midnight,but i found the eye always closed, and so it was …show more content…
After placing his chair over the deceased corpse of the old man it gives the reader the idea that he is beginning to feel like a psychopath in which I personally believe he is, but that is a matter of opinion. But what is fact is the way he begins to act and feel after the police had come over. In this quote its unambiguous that he is feeling guilty or even feeling regret. “But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that i must scream or