The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe | Characters, Summary, Analysis
‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that was first published in January 1843. It is a Gothic fiction story in which a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.
The crime lacks any specific motive as the narrator claims he never had any feelings of hatred or resentment for the man who had "never wronged" the narrator. The narrator also denies having been killed for greed and states, "Object there was none. Passion there was none." The narrator is living with the old man for a long and he loves the old man, except for his one filmy pale blue "vulture-eye" that the narrator hates. The story is about the mystery that people sometimes harm those whom they love or need in their lives. The narrator was annoyed by the pale blue vulture-like eye and he strongly wished to separate the old man from that evil eye so that he may not be forced to kill him. But he failed to realize that the blue-eye that he hates so much is the ‘I’ of that old man. In his obsessive hatred of that evil blue-eye, the narrator separates the identity of the old man from his eye and thus, kills him. The story uses a first-person unreliable narrative style and it appears that the story begins in media res; that is, the narrator is already in a conversation with someone, maybe a police officer or the judge or jury, or a psychologist.
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