In the short story called The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. He does not apply his theory to his practices.         In this book the author could have put it into more detail like when the narrator pulled the heavy bed over the old man. Also when the narrator dismembered the corpse. The author emphasis the eye of the old man as being an evil eye. "The eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with …showed first 75 words of 341 total…

…showed last 75 words of 341 total…It's nothing new for murders to dismembered their victims. When Edgar Allen Poe lived this did not happen to often. But if he lived today this story would be more believable. This kind of situation happens on a regular basis.         In conclusion if Edgar Allan Poe would have wrote a better ending, he would than have fit his theory to his practices. It was a good story overall were he almost followed all his points.