6/29/2023 0 Comments The tell tale story![]() ![]() ![]() The story is a proof of human being’s inherently evil nature. ![]() The setting and diction used in the story make it a classic Poe story. The story is one of the classics of Poe’s short stories and of its genre. Poe only focuses on the events and situations which lead to the killing rather than focusing on individuals. We do not know, as readers, whether the narrator is a male or a female. Furthermore, Poe has not given us detail about the narrator’s relationship with the old man. The untrustworthy narrator does not have a solid reason to murder the old man (apart from his hatred for the old man’s eye). Eventually, he cannot bear the secret anymore and confesses his crime to the policemen. His guilty conscience constantly pricks him and reminds him of his brutal act. He also receives the policemen with utmost comfort but, slowly and gradually, his anxiety increases. He attends to every minute detail in the process of murder carefully kills him, disjoints every part of his body, and then buries the body parts underground in the room. The old man’s “vulture-eye” makes the narrator angry and he decides to kill him. ![]()
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