mpletely out of site of the police. Assuring himself constantly that the police would never know that the old man was even in the home still, the police are invited in where they stay for quite some time and enjoy themselves in the presence of the killer (narrator/care taker). Through all the talking, however, the caretaker's acute sense of hearing begins to pick up a sound from beneath the floor. It is clearly the imaginary sound of the old mans' heart; this causes the caretaker to go nuts and admit to the murder. The crazy care taker did not at anytime consider himself crazy, but for someone to believe that they are hearing the heart of a dead person beating, we know that is exactly what they are, and that they are really hearing their conscious speaking due to their own mishaps. Poe's views are discretely hidden within the story and within the actual connotation o
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