Some key events from the story are-
the old man's pale blue eyes that seem to affect the narrator.
The narrator's ha tred for the eyes, despite having no ha tred for the old man himself.
The narrator would sneak every night for a week and observe the old man while he slept.
The eighth night was different as he felt the old man wasn't sleeping but felt a sense of te r ror which led him to kill him.
He then dis me mber ed the body and hid them under the flooring boards.
The policemen who had arrived to inspect if anything is wrong were confident nothing is wrong.
But the narrator, eager to prove his innocence and his expertise in hiding his crime so well, made them sit right in the same room where he had hidden the old man's body.
His imagination led him to believe that the dead man's heart is beating so loud, like a drum, and that the policemen were ta u nting him, leading him to confess to the crime.
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Ed gar Al lan Po e's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," tells the story of an unnamed narrator who's trying to convince the readers why he had committed a mu rder. The story follows the narrator and how he came to do the dreadful act.
- The narrator reveals that there was no particular motive behind his murd erous act, just that the old man's pale blue eyes affected him in ways he couldn't understand or explain.
- This can be understood by his statement, "I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me ins ult."
- The eighth night was different for the old man felt a sense of te rr or, which also left the narrator to feel differently. It was this night that the old man was killed by the narrator.
- The narrator, hearing the loud thumping of the old man's nervous heartbeat, decided to do something about it before the neighbors can hear the 'loud' heartbeat.
- He then dis mem bered the body, with careful pre cision he 'cleaned' after himself.
- The body parts were then put under the "flooring of the chamber", admitting that his actions were so precise, "[I] replaced the boards so cleverly, so c u nnin gly, that no human eye — not even his — could have detected anything wrong."
- Upon a neighbor's report, three policemen arrived to check whether things are all fine, to which the narrator happily admitted them in and showed them everything is in order and that the old man was out of the country.
- In an act of sheer au d a city, he even made them rest in the very same room he had killed and hidden the corpse.
- But the longer the men cha t te d, the more de li r i o us he be came.
- He felt that he could hear the heart beat lou der, even ima gining if the polic em en had he ard it too.
- Unable to contain his anxious state, and believing that the men knew what he had done and were taunting him, he confessed to the crime and revealed the location of the body, declaring "it is the beating of his hide ous heart!"
The whole story shows the narrator's overconfidence that led him to confess his crime. The short story reveals the narrator's crime and his self consciousness that led him to fess up to the crime.
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