The Tell-Tale Heart Literary Analysis

In 2017, there were 2817 people on death row. The question is, how many of them were calculating killers, delusional mad men, or something else entirely? In the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, there is a killer who eradicated an older gentleman. This killer could fit both descriptions of a calculating murderer and a delusional mad man. This story is narrated by the voices inside the killer’s head. Right from the get-go, the narrator convinced that the reader that he is mad by trying to show that he is reliable using charm and insistence. The setting of the story is inside an old house occupied by the previously mentioned old man. The story revolves around the hatred the main character has for the old man’s eye. The killer's