Tell Tale Heart Guilt

The Tell- Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poeis a horror story that expresses the narrators inner guilt. In this story, it shows how crazy and lunatic of a person the narrator is. The narrator goes in an old mans house watching him, he goes into the old man’s room and kills the man and gets rid of the body, and even before he had time to do anything elses the police show up.
Every night for 7 nights at midnight he watched the old man in his house. The narrator is telling us that every single night that he come into the old mans house and watches him. The narrator is very mentally insane and unstable, because the fact that he should come in and watch the old man and his eye. The narrator found something so fascinating about the cataract eye that

He was satisfied that the man was dead, because he could get rid of the eye. The narrator was so crazy that he took the body up and cut it up. His arms were cut off, as well as his legs, and head, and he dismemebred the corpse. He put the old man in the chamber of the man’s house, but little did he know while he was busy with the body and killing/suffocating him when the shriek of the old man was let out one of the nieghbors had heard it. The narrator still proves to himself that he is mentally fine, and he is not mad or anything, and doesn’t want revenge, although this was not true, he was a lunatic, odd, and mentally

Then came a knock at the door, the narrator was a little nervous, and when he opened the door it was the police. The police came to the house to make sure everything was alright because they got a report from the neighbors that they heard a loud shriek. The narrator decided to keep it cool, and play it off, he invited the police into the house and acted like everything was fine. He told the police it was his shriek followed by a dream he had, but the police kept on asking questions and the small talk was going fine, but the narrator started to get nervous, and pale and anxious. He started to hear a ring in his ear like a beat, and he thought he was sure that the police could hear it to. The beat/ ringing kept on growing louder and louder, and the narrator got more pale and nervous. He couldn’t take it anymore, he was convinced that the police could hear the sound grow louder and louder as well. That is when he snapped, he stood up with so much emotion and confessed to the murder of the old