The narrator argues that he is not insane. He keeps telling us how he planned the murder of the old man. He planned to kill the old man at night when everyone was asleep. The narrator shows many clues to him being insane. Many of the things he does and says shows the reader that he is crazy. In the fallowing paragraphs will be more clues to show you that the guy is insane. “It was impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I did not desire.” You may not think he’s mad so far but your wrong. “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye …show more content…
He said that he had waited a long for this moment to come. “So I opened it – you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily—until, at length, a simple dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye.” As the guy looked at the eye, for the eye was wide open and it made him mad. The sight of the dull blue eye with the hideous reil over it chilled the very marrow of his bones. He could only see the old man’s eye because of the way he had positioned the lantern. “—Now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too.” It was the beating for the old man’s heart that he was hearing. The sound increased his fury. The guy kept still hardly breathing. The beating grew quicker, and got even louder. The guy was very nervous. The guy jumped and dragged the old man out of the bed on to the floor, he then pulled the bed on top of the old man. “I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.” He checked the heart for a little bit to make sure it had stopped beating. “The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” He placed the body under some of floor boards. One of the neighbors heard a scream and had called the police. The police showed up and the guy