Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

In Edgar Allen Poe’s gothic stories, he uses an unnamed first-person character. For example, the stories that we have read in class the narrator is clearly suffering from some sort of mental illness, but the narrator says that they are sane and calm even though they aren’t. Eventually the narrator gets found out whether they made a mistake during the hiding of the body or that the narrator got too cocky and it drove them insane. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator kept saying that he was sane because he stayed calm during the murder. He then sits on top of the dead body in front of the police just to show how calm and not crazy he is. The narrator then hears his own heart and thinks that it is the heart of the old man. The heart beat gets louder and louder until he can’t stand it anymore and confesses to the crime. During the period while he was planning the murder. The narrator couldn’t kill him because the old man’s eye wasn’t open. He mentioned the old man wasn’t the issue but that it was is eye. The reader could have sympathized with the narrator and agreed with

He grabs the cat and hangs it from a tree. Later the narrator’s house gets burned down. It later appears that the only wall left standing is in the shape of a giant cat with a noose around its neck. The narrator then finds a similar cat at the bar the only difference being a white spot on the cat’s neck. Throughout the story the cats white spot becomes larger and resembles a noose around the cat’s neck. He tries to kill the cat but ends up killing his wife instead. The man then buries his wife in the wall and invites the police down to chat about how the walls are built. The old man is hinting at the reader that he is sane for not turning himself in without saying it. The narrator leans against the wall and hears a scream from the inside. The police open the wall to find the man’s wife and the