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The Tell Tale Tell Heart Psychopath Analysis
The old man made a loud shriek as the narrator started to suffocate him! If you think the narrator is not a psychopath then maybe this will change your mind.
(Poe)The narrator of the story "Tell Tale Heart" is a psychopath because he can't stay calm while the police officers were sitting down. Another reason is that he wasn't able to wait for the old man to go back to sleep on the eighth night. A third reason is that he suffocated the old man with his own mattress, then cut him up shortly after.(Poe)
Tale Tell Heart is by Edgar Allen poe, it has a middle aged man along with an old man. The narrator loved the old man, but it was that the old man had an eye that he hated, an Evil Eye! The narrator is the middle aged man, and he lives with the

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