The Tell Tale Heart Crazy

In the short story, “The Tell Tale Heart” the unknown narrator tells about his personal experience of killing an old man that lives with him. The plot is the narrator is trying to prove that he is not a “mad” man. He then proves that he is mad by killing the old man because of his eye that disturbs him. One can obtain that the narrator suffers from mental issues. The narrator’s mental issues cause him to kill the old man; even though he claims he is not ‘mad’.
In this story, the narrator explains that, “the disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story”(Poe). The narrator of this story claims that he is not insane. By reading the quote that he states, it shows that he has some type of mental issues. Many people in their right mind, cannot calmly tell a story of themselves killing someone. The unknown narrator walks in and out of the old man’s room every night watching him. The old man could hear him creeping in his room one night because of the sound he made. The whole time he was entering in and out of the old man’s room; he was plotting his death. The mad man claims that he is to clever to be insane, but his actions show otherwise. However after plotting the old man’s death he finally does it. He kills him.
In this story the narrator
tells that he did kill the old man. The narrator tells that he did open the lantern. “So I opened it—you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily—until, at length a simple dim ray shot from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye”(Poe). The narrator opens the lantern to shine the light directly in his eye. The narrator tells that the light “fell full upon the vulture eye” (Poe). After the narrator commits the murder, his conscious has began to terrorize him. He claims that he did hear the dead man’s heartbeat. What he did not know was that it was his own heartbeat.
The story, “The Tell Tale Heart” has two main characters, the old man and the narrator.
Despite the fact that the narrator did kill the old man; he says that he loves him even though he ends up killing him. Toward the end of the story the man began to suffer from his consequences by feeling guilty. Throughout the story the narrator should have been thinking about the consequences of killing the old man, instead of trying to prove that he is sane. Throughout the story, the narrator seems as if he is just insane. Then, at the end of the story, the narrator seems to be after something more than killing the old man. He seems to be jealous of his wealth and his evil
eye.