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Daniel Macomber Mrs. Huffer ENC 1102-40037 July 10, 2000 The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder of the Narrator in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as “an anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from obsessions and/or compulsions” (Wood 407). In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator shows signs of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when wakes up at midnight and ritualizes how he is going to kill the …

…his conscious thought and gives him great distress. The narrator displays the symptoms of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and he explains them to us in great detail. Bibliography Macomber 4 Works Cited Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed New York: Longman, 1999. 33-37. Wood, Samuel E. and Ellen Green. The Essential World of Psycology. MA A Pearson Education Company, 2000. Hoffman