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Why I Don T Trust The Narrator In The Tell-Tale Heart

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Have you ever had a dream that you killed someone you "loved"? In "Tell-Tale Heart" by
Edgar Alan Poe, the narrator had a very realistic dream. What happened in the story is that the narrator really loved this old man that" had never wronged him" but he had always thought his blue eyes were annoying which made him really mad. one day he was sleeping and he had a dream that felt so real, the dream was him killing the old man and it felt like real life. When he woke up he was confused because he found out the old man was actually out of the country. When the police investigated him he was so sure that he killed him and he was getting very furious that the police were making a mockery of his fear.
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the reason i don't trust the narrator is because hes fancy's an old man and is obsessed. the narrator also was a very good liar because he doesn't seem like the type to kill an old man. i also can't trust him because hes very good at faking his emotions. I also can't trust him because he also thinks that hes not mad but hes having dreams of killing an old man just because of his eyes.
The evidence I have of why I can't trust him is because he said "I heard all things in heaven and on earth, I heard many things in hell How, then, am I mad?". How that shows that he is mad and not trustworthy is because he said he has heard many things in hell and heaven when that clearly isn't true. Then again he also said "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him". That shows that hes good at faking his emotions because he was acting nice to the old man so the old man would never suspect him. therefore that shows that I can't trust him. Although what could make him reliable is because he was telling the officers the truth, also when he said the old man has never wronged him it was just his eyes.
How i know he was telling the truth when he said the old man never wronged him

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