The story starts out by the narrator telling us that he’s not crazy just nervous. The narrator lives with and old man, probably a servant. The narrator is afraid of the old man’s eyes, to get rid of the eyes he had to kill the old man. For eight nights, the narrator comes in and out of the old man’s room contemplating on whether it’s the right time to kill the old man now or later. The old man wakes up on the last day, looks around afraid that someone was in his room but moments he goes back to sleep. The narrators see that the eye are open and go mad and finally goes in for the kill. The narrator begins to cut up the old man body and place the body part under the wooden floor boards. The neighbor calls the cops because they heard a shriek; the narrator welcomes the cops into the house. He tells the cop that the old man was out of town and that it was him who screamed. Finally it hits him and he confessed to the cops that he killed the old man, “Villains! I shrieked. Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –Tear up the planks! - Here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!” (Poe). In his mind he begins hearing the old man heart beat growing louder and louder, making him insane. The short story is a great master mind of how a mad men plot to kill off the eye of an old man finally goes insane because he hears the heart beat of the old man in the end.
Work Cited
Poe, Edgar AllanGeary, Rick. "The Tell-Tale Heart." Read 54.10 (2005): 21. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 20 Nov. 2011.
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