Could an absurd eye be enough to get you killed by the people you trust? An elder man was murdered by the young individual who took care of him. For only one reason, his mismatch eye described as the eye of a vulture, pale blue with film over it. The narrator of ´´The Tell- Tale Heart´´ is not guilty of murder on account of insanity. Especially since he had no reason to kill the old man besides his eye.
Despite the fact the Narrator had been living with the old man and had nothing against him, he took the old man´s life. In the second paragraph he states “Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye.” The quote proves the narrator had no good reason to kill the old man. Except for the old man's eye that most likely came to be odd looking with age. In most cases of murder that happen in someone's home the cause is a long standing grudge between murder and victim or robbery. Nope in this case a poor, unsuspecting old man who has an odd eye is killed because of an imperfection on his face. Anyone who kills for a reason like that is either insane or very judgemental.
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”And this I did for seven long nights- every night but I found the eye closed and so it was impossible to do the work for it was not the old man who vexed me but his evil eye.” (paragraph 3) He says “the eye” instead of his eye, as if he thinks that the eye is it´s own thing. As if the man's eye had itś on conscious. Despite the fact he killed the old man because his eye or the eye was evil. The quote also proves he stalked the old man until his final days by watching him