Summary of Edgar Allan Poes The Tell Tale Heart
Summary of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is a psychological horror story about an unnamed narrator who murders an old man out of an obsession with his pale, "vulture-like" blue eye. After dismembering the body and hiding it beneath the floorboards, the narrator’s mounting guilt manifests as an imagined, deafening heartbeat, driving him to confess. The story An unnamed narrator insists that he is not mad, but rather suffers from nerves that have sharpened his senses, especially his hearing. He begins to recount the events that led to a murder. The narrator claims to have loved an old man he lived with, but became obsessed with the old man's "vulture eye," which was pale blue with a film over it. This "Evil Eye" so terrified and enraged the narrator that he decided to kill the old man to close the eye forever. The narrator describes his extreme caution and calculation. For seven nights at ex...