Imagine the sight of an old man's eye, vulturous, pale blue, with a film covering it. Could this drive one's self so insane that one would murder a man because of it? This is the event that occurs in Edgar Allen Poe's vivid tale The Tell-Tale Heart.
             The story is a recount of events that have already taken place and is being told by a nameless narrator. Poe does not even go into detail as to what sex the narrator is. The only detail we get about the narrator is of the actions he is taking in the story, "...With what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work!"(Poe, 36) The narrator even takes into consideration that you consider him insane right from the start in the 3rd paragraph. "You fancy me mad,"(Poe, 36) from here he tells the story as if he is trying to justify his actions to you. Poe gives little detail to either, of the main characters in the story because neither are the main focus of the story. Poe uses the point of view from a mad man with wonderful detail added to the suspense of the story.
             Why did Poe choose a narrative form for the point of view? With the narrator as the main protagonist to the story and next to no details into the character, this leaves the reader with a sense of terror, for what will happened to the old man. With the story leading the reader to believe that the narrator is insane from the 1st couple of lines of the story, the foreshadowing of events leaves the reader to a sense of dread since he knows what will happen "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him," (Poe, 36) yet the reader does not know what will happen up to that point.
             We can also gather that the speaker is not that reliable of a narrator, for the story in the 1st couple of paragraphs he states that he has a "disease bemused to be insanity." "The disease had sharpened my senses- not destroyed, not dulled them."(Poe, 36). Yet a few sentences l...