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Edgar Allen Poe is one our great American writers as we clearly see in his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”. ... History finds that first-person narrators can be unreliable in their storytelling. ... The narrator truly thinks that he is sane and that the brutal crime he committed was for a just cause. In the following passage, we see that the narrator is in plain, open denial. ...
The narrator knew what his intentions were and planned the murder very carefully. ... In the following passage, the narrator is clearly lying to himself:
And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over acuteness of the senses? ... It was the beating of the old man’s heart. ...
The sound that he hears is not the old man’s heart beating but it is his own heart.
Approximate Word count = 659
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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