Poe’s stories often contain very dark and twisted characters. He likes to write about fear and torture. The main character in the stories “The Raven” and “The Tell Tale Heart” are on the edge of insanity. In “The Raven”, the narrator fears he is going insane. He hears something taping on his door, but when he opens the door no one is there. Due to his lack of sanity, I do not truly believe that there was a raven on the door. I think the raven was the man’s excuse for the tapping he was hearing. The tapping was most likely inside the man’s head. The main character in “The Tell Tale Heart” is on the peak of insanity. He can not stand his neighbor’s vulture like eye. The narrator wants to kill the man because of the color of his eye. I think
