Comparing The Narrator In Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator of the story is a crazy, deranged, man. When living with the Old Man, he finds something about the Old Man that drives him crazy. So crazy that he would kill the Old Man over it. Although it is evident that he is not, the narrator wants you to think things that he is. When introducing himself to the reader, the narrator is trying to convince the reader that he is not crazy. The narrator talks about how people think he is mad and he is nervous about something. As he talks to the reader, the narrator says, “...but why will you say that I am mad?...How then am I mad?” (Poe 1). By saying this the narrator is trying to tell the reader he is not crazy. The narrator also explains that people