The Tell Tale Heart Sparknotes

The Tell Tale Heart is a short story written by Stephen Crane. The story takes place in Nebraska at the Palace (Blue) Hotel. The proprietor of the hotel, Scully, brings his guests from a train station which is nearby the hotel. One night he gets “The Swede”, “The Easterner”, and the cowboy. The narrative is about one and only nighttime when these three men are staying at Scully’s hotel. Their staying is not normal, they do not get on well with each other and what’s more they start fighting. The edge of the night brings an unexpected, astonishing and disgraceful moment. In this essay, I am going to explain a paragraph from the end which is the following:

“The game was only for fun.” “Fun or not,” said the Easterner, “Johnnie was cheating. I saw him. I know it. I saw him. And I refused to stand up and be a man. I let the Swede fight it out alone. And you- you were simply puffing around the place and wanting to fight. And then old Scully himself! We are all in it! This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb. Every sin is the result of a collaboration. We, five of us, have collaborated in the murder of this Swede. The cowboy, injured and rebellious, cried out blindly into this fog of mysterious theory. “Well, I didn’t do anythin’, did I?” (Crane, 31-32 pag.)
They hold prejudgment against him besides treat him differently as he comes from a different place therefore this can be the source of their conflict. Nevertheless at the end they admit that all the actions, what they did, lead to his death. For instance: Johnnie was cheating, the Easterner saw it and did not do anything since he was too scared to take actions against it and did not want to look like a wimp as well as the cowboy encouraged the Swede to fight. They refused to be a man, let the Swede be alone and did not support