Comparing The Tell-Tale Heart And A & P

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The two stories, “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “A&P” by John Updike have some similar attributes and differences in the narration of their stories. The Tell-Tale Heart is narrated by an unnamed character while A&P has a narrator and character named Sammy. Both the people talking in the stories have difference and similarities in how they talk to the reader often skewing their perspective. The main characters of both the stories are not convincing in telling their stories Both the stories had same type of narration which was a first person view.“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthy- how calmly, I can tell you the whole story” (…show more content…
Murder from the Tale Tell Heart tell that he is not mad at first and then as the story makes shape murder, says “ I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold” ( Poe 41). At the commencement of the story and narration, narrator acknowledges that he is not mad but soon he complains about the old man’s eye which made murderer very annoyed and wanting to kill the old man.Murderer aims to demonstrate a mental soundness of himself seeming to believe must present within him since he has been able to enact a complicated murder with a diligent eye for detail. Whereas in the story by John Updike, A&P, the narrator, Sammy, is one of the characters of the story. Sammy says, “In walks three girls in nothing but bathing suits” (Updike 19 ). towards the beginning of the story Sammy describes the three girls who enters the drug store.He also said, “She had on a kind of dirty-pink- beige maybe, I don’t know-bathing suit with little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down” ( Updike 19 ). Sammy reports the clothing each girl is wearing which also gives helps reader to better know Sammy. As Sammy is a Nineteen year old he attracted and excited about seeing those girls at A&P in bathing suit. At the end due to the Lengel, store manager, taunting those girls which makes Sammy
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