Tell Tale Heart

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" the narrator is disgusted by the look of the old mans "vulture eye." The look of the eye becomes so intense in the mind of the narrator, it drives him to murder the old man. After the narrator kills the old man he cuts him into many pieces and stashes under the floorboards of the house. The ludicrous acts of the narrator, such as killing the old …

…only he could hear the old mans heart beating, but the police could also. "Villains!" "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! -- here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!" The narrator of "The Tell Tale Heart" is the perfect example of an unreliable narrator. His sudden changes in mood and psychotic ways prove his unreliability and force one to doubt anything he says. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**