The author's choice of narrative voice greatly influences the relationship between the author and the reader. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" defines such a relationship, due to the unique voice Poe projects through the tone and choice of narrator. These reasons are why this literary work effectively demonstrates a defined and well-crafted relationship. The are specifically designed to make the readers develop their own bias and their own opinions on the narrator, despite his efforts to convince us otherwise. The psychological conflict that the subject endures throughout the telling of the story, the subject's glaringly apparent and obvious case for insanity and paranoia and how these two features are what accent the story's dramatic arc and the style in which it is written.
             Poe uses choice in words in the opening paragraph to help the reader immediately to identify the presence of a psychological conflict in the tale. The opening sentence "True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" (Poe 721) effectively brands the narrator as a some deranged madman who experiences an internal conflict that keeps him contained within constant mental struggle. This struggle is made apparent by Poe's style of irregular sentence structure and a rambling, yet detailed narrative that goes deep into the murderer's mind. The subject tries to rationalize his irrational behaviour which drastically affects the relationship between both the narrator and reader, especially because his words carry a plea for sympathy. His attempts to justify his actions enable us to understands the physical and emotional turmoil that he causes himself through the consequences of his actions.
             Even without the first paragraph, the story could have been sufficiently introduced using all the appropriate elements (character, setting, plot, etc); however, it would not adequately nurture the intended relat...