In this short story “ The Tell- Tale Heart” author Edgar Allan Poe presents a character who was extremely nervous and insane that tries to kill an old man because of his eye. This character, the young man, tries to convince the reader that he is not mad by telling us what happened in his own perspective. In the story the young man live in the same house with the old man. He tells us his close relationship with him and how much he loved him. But he had a obsession with the old man’s eye that he decided to kill him to get rid of it. For seven nights the young man goes to the old man’s room at midnight to observe the old man’s eye. Each night he turned the latch of his door and opened it and then he put in a dark lantern and trust his head.