The two stories which impressed me most were Tell Tale Heart and A Curtain of Green. Although they seem very different from each other, I see them as different representations of two pretty similar stories. Both Tell Tale Heart and A Curtain of Green take us into memories of two protagonists who have some mental issues and who are presumably very lonely people. Both of the stories include highly dramatic climaxes; however, the ways we took while we join the characters in their journey are certainly different. Before explaining the different narrative styles of the stories, we should take a look at the main characters. Tell Tale Heart is narrated by first-person. Although the Narrator claims the opposite, he is a mad-man, and he tells the story …show more content…
Maybe Mrs Larkin is not insane, at least not as insane as Tell Tale Heart; however, we cannot say that she is totally sane after we saw this scene that she basically intended to commit a murder. The question of “life and death” drives her into dangerous paths, and we feel that this scene is just the tip of the iceberg. Of course, I do not claim that she murdered someone else before but she is not just a quiet lady, working in the garden and keeping herself busy. She is obsessed with the question of “life and death”; thus, her garden is not only her “curtain of green” which keeps her safe and invisible from outside, but also the place where she constantly deals with “life and death”. She picks dead flowers or weeds from the ground and plants the new ones, every single day of her life goes with the question “life and death”. It is life that she gives to her garden and that she has in veins while her husband lost his. And it is death she is trying to protect her garden from; death that took her husband from her, separating them forever, ending their happiness. Finally, it is death which leads her to take a life of another innocent person. Fortunately, the rain begins with its calming nature, and she does not kill the young