If the Narrator in this story withstood a mental health review by a psychologist, they would say that he is “mentally ill” or if reviewed by psychologist of his time, “he is demon possessed”. Furthermore they would keep him under surveillance by a caretaker or psychiatric professional. Nevertheless he is still responsible for his actions; he killed a person and took the old man’s legs, head and arms form his body, and hide him under the floorboards of his room! Only an individual with an extreme mental illness or huge a passion to gain vengeance from another person! To begin this rant of arguments, the Narrator (is not given a name in the story) shows a lot of examples to prove that he is guilty, while not even noticing it. Just that small facet mentioned proves he was psychotic. Additionally, on page 89, the Narrator actually admits to the reader that “…the disease has sharpened my senses…” (Poe 89), thus proving he is insane. Nonetheless the fact that he talks hypocritically, for example, the fact that before he does something a psychotic person would do, like “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” (Poe 89), he says “You …show more content…
This “vulture eye” could have just been a figment of his imagination due to the discovery of him being an unreliable narrator. The “Evil Eye” drove him mad and made him pursue the goal of getting rid of the eye by “getting” the old man. Though his motive is as clear as mud, the drive for him and his cruelty towards the man just because of his eye really is astonishing. Especially by the virtue of what insidious ways the narrator connives this way to dispose the body, disregarding the fact that he would stare at the old man’s eye during his slumber. This vital piece of evidence proves that he deserves to pay for his