Tell Tale Heart Deception

Is there a big difference between deception and revenge? The narrative story The Tell-Tale Heart was written by Edgar Alan Poe in 1843. The story is told by an unnamed narrator that doesn’t seem very reliable. The main characters in the story are the old man and the unnamed narrator. In the story the narrator loves the old man. Except for one thing. The old mans eye because it reminds the narrator of a vulture’s eye. So the narrator makes the decision to get rid of the eye at all costs. The result is deadly. Poe creates the story The Tell-Tale Heart using mainly the aspects of mood, setting, and plot. These aspects help create the feeling of suspense throughout the story. They also help the reader really imagine what the author is writing and what is happening in the story.

Setting is used in the story to describe the scenery around the characters. One example is when the narrator is sneaking into the old mans apartment as the old man was sleeping. As the narrator is sneaking in his thumb slips and the door opens quickly. Making a loud noise and waking the old man up in a panic thinking that there’s an intruder. “I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang out of bed crying out— “Who’s there?”” (Poe 93). The setting helps in this part of the story because it allows the reader to read what is happening and visualize it as well. There are many other aspects that Poe uses as