“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is told in first person from a mentally insane murder. This story, told in first person narrative, is the most effective because it shows the mindset of the killer and also his motives for his actions. The things he does and thinks are not sensible. For example, throughout the whole story the narrator is trying to convince himself that he is not crazy. Even though his motive to kill the old man was because his eye had a “film over it” (373), which was just a cataract. Any sane person would know that it would not be harmful to them and would not kill a person because of a strange looking eye. In addition, the narrator thinks that he can hear the old man’s heartbeat after he killed and chopped up
