I believe that the man is very insane. This was a man of destruction and someone with a very cold heart. The actions this man did are not things everyday humans do. In this story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe this man has an evil thing that bothers him so he decides to get rid of it…. forever. Poe shows how insane a single person can get and the guilt you have of that one action you take in life.
I truly think this man is insane and way out of his mind. He goes into this old man’s room every night when he’s sleeping just to see his “vulture” eye and how it bothers him. He opens it and examines it every night at midnight exactly. After weeks and weeks of preparation the man decides to get rid of the eye himself because it was driving him crazy. He walks in the old man’s room one night and kills him with his own hands. He then chops up his body and hides it in the floor boards. Now who in their right mind would do that? This man clearly had something wrong with his mind. In the meantime the police arrive because neighbors heard yells from the old man’s house. Of course that was the old man when he was dying. Once the police get there the man covers up that the old man wasn’t there and that nothing happened. The man had so much guilt that he kept thinking that he could hear the old man’s heart still beating when he was dead. Now this is crazy because once someone is dead you can’t hear their heart ever again. Eventually the guilt kills the man inside and he confesses to the officers, but he thinks maybe this isn’t so bad. The man wants everyone to know his plan and how a genius he thought he was.
Overall this man was very foolish; he kills an innocent man just because of his eye. Furthermore he got his wish and the “vulture” eye was gone, but he was okay with that because people would know his master plan worked. In whole this short story is something people can learn from that don’t let little things get to you and definitely don’t take it to the extremes of murdering, how the man did.
