In the “Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Hitchhiker” the characters are similar because they are both insane. In the “Tell-Tale Heart” an insane man tried to kill an elderly man because his eye looked like a vulture's so he confessed to the police after hearing his heartbeat. In the “The Hitchhiker” Ronald Adams sees a hitchhiker that seemed to want him gone so he tried to avoid him at all costs but after making a phone call, he supposedly died six days ago.“But why will you say I’m mad? The disease sharpened my sense--- not destroyed them--- not dulled them.”(Poe 78) The character is going insane because of some disorder and denying it. Denying that you are going mad is just more justification that you are going mad. This proves that the narrator
