Edgar Allan Poe Is The Narrator Insane

Poe creates fear and dread through many different things, one is through characters. One character he uses is the narrator; the narrator is insane. He hears things like the heart beat of the old man. The narrator keeps giving us more and more reason why he is insane. One is that he watched the old man while he was sleeping for 8 straight nights. The narrator slowly opened the door slowly every night until he could fit his head in. “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.”(Poe 303) The narrator did everything extremely cautiously; he never moved to fast or did anything too loud. All he did when he opened the door enough to see the old man sleep was watch. He watched him …show more content…
When the narrator was stocking the old man he was devious and shifty. However when he was talking to the policemen he was confident and unafraid. The narrator was a very clever man who knew what he was doing and was confident about how he was doing it. On the other hand the old man was completely oblivious to what to narrator had been planning. For he done nothing to the narrator; never mean never or never annoying. One night he even woke up in the middle of the night hearing something, and never got out of his bed and looked around. The old man had no clue anyone was even watching him sleep. Although the old man had never done anything to the narrator the thing that was driving the narrator to kill the old man was the eye. “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it.”(Poe 303) The only reason for killing the old man was the eye. Killing some one of their eyes is a weird thing to think. The old man had no control of what his eye looked like and the narrator thought if he killed him the eye would go away. The old man was completely innocent he had done nothing ever and it was all cause of the