Summary Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tale-Tell Heart

Edgar Allan Poe knew he was going to create a suspenseful tale when he wrote this story. “The Tale-Tell Heart” keeps you in suspense throughout the whole story. The man should be put in prison for murder. The old man didn’t do anything to him. So, the man had a giant eye; that shouldn’t bother him. He says “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” He is going to take the old man’s life because he is scared of the eye. Doesn’t that sound a little strange? I think the man is just going mad or already in the stages of severe madness. He keeps telling us that he isn’t mad, that he is very clever. Even though he is cautious at what he does, doesn’t mean he is mad or isn’t going mad. “Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution-with what foresight- with what foresight- with what dissimulation I went to work!” He indeed was very cautious, but why kill someone over an eye that creeps you …show more content…
I think he should be put in prison. He murdered an innocent old man, because he had a weird eye. Yes, he is insane because after he murdered the man, hid the body parts, and was sitting and taking with the police; he heard a noise… A noise he thought was the old man’s heart, but in reality it was actually his own. “I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me- sound would be heard by a neighbor!” He was sitting there talking to the police, and the noise got louder, and louder, and even louder… until; the man bursts out in madness. Before he bursted out he thought to himself… “Was it possible they heard not? - no, no! They heard! - they suspected! – they knew! – they were making a mockery of my horror!” He then bursted out… “’Villains!” I shrieked, “ dissemble no more! I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous