Tell-Tale Heart: Text Dependent Analysis

Tell Tale Heart: Text Dependent Analysis Looking around the world , everyone is put with a label. Kind, intelligent, rude, and so much more. A common label to be put on people is crazy. The narrator in Edgar Allen Poe’ s story, Tell Tale Heart perfectly shows what it’s like for a person to be insane. He tells a story that he believes actually happened. The narrator claims the he killed an old man that he truly loved. He loved the old man but, the narrator thought his eye is evil. When he looked at the old man’s eye the narrator felt anger. What the narrator didn’t know is that the old man was blind in one eye which caused his eye to look the way it did. If the narrator loved the old man why would he kill him for one little flaw? Throughout the story he claims he is’t crazy which shows that he’s crazy enough to make up the murder.

The narrator tried saying that he was able to sense everything whether it was in earth or beyond it. We know that it is not physically possible to be able to sense everything. With the narrator saying that he is able to sense everything, it shows that he can easily make something up. He has enough imagination to make up a full detailed story. After the narrator killed the old man he had to dismember the corpse. While he was dismembering the old man's body, he would’ve gotten blood all over the place. He said he was able to do it without making a mess but, using common sense you can’t dismember a corpse without drawing blood. When he was done with the body he claims that police officers came to his house and inspected the surroundings. If they came to the house knowing that the narrator murdered the old man they wouldn’t have been that calm. They would’ve had to act calm but they wouldn’t have been able to walk around the house in the manner that was explained. They also would’ve asked a lot more questions about