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The TellTale Heart
Title: The TellTale Heart
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 920 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The TellTale Heart
In Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the speaker of the story
tries to convince the reader that he is not mad. But by the speaker telling the story as he
does, he answers his own question that he asks the reader at the start of the story, “...why
will you say I am mad?” ( Introduction to Literature, page 415). He attempts to tell his
story in a calm manner, but as he describes …showed first 75 words of 920 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 920 total…eye of a vulture is the physical proof. With the passion he speaks of the act,
the reader can see that this is not the voice of a sane man speaking, but of a man gone
mad and begging that he has held onto his sanity.
Bibliography
Poe, Edgar Allan, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Introduction to Literature. 3rd ed. Ed. Gillian
Thomas, Richard J.H. Perkyns, Kenneth A. MacKinnon, and Wendy R. Katz.
Toronto:Harcourt Brace, 1995. 415-418.
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