The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe write about a confession of a criminal. The narrator first say that he is rational, then he wants reader to listen to his word to prove his mind. He thinks that the victim, an old man, have evil eyes that scare him. The narrator wants to kill him because of that. He sneaks next to the old man’s bed for seven days, and on the eighth day, the old man wakes up, so he kills the old man. When the police come, the narrator sits directly above where the old man is buried to show how confidence he is (or how crazy he is). While the talk continues, the police start to trust the narrator, but he hears his heart beating and thinks that it is old man’s heart beat. The narrator cannot resist anymore, so he confesses
If the story is written in third person, readers’ attention is changing through the narrator himself into the plot of the story. In that case, reader will mostly likely ignore the mental state of the murderer. In the story, Poe gives a lot of psychological changes to the narrator, create a connection to the readers how the murderer feels about the scene. However, when switching to third person, those change most like disappear because the connection between the narrator and the readers is cut off. The way of the story written enhance how we feel about the story. Poe uses a lot of psychological change of the narrator to make readers think that they are in the story. While Poe keeps putting “I am not mad” in the story, it first makes the readers think that the narrator is not actually mad or crazy. But when the narrator keep repeating and keep repeating himself, then readers start to doubt their trust, thinking that the narrator is actually crazy and unstable. The way how the narrator sneaks into the house imply to the reader, make them feels creepy too. Overall the way of the story written is