The story begins with a narrator telling the reader he is not insane. He claims that his senses are sharpened and that he hears the sounds in heaven, earth and hell. He concludes that it was not his fault that he committed murder but the old man’s evil eye. He then tells how he observes the old man for several days until the day he finally kills him and buries him under the floorboards of the house. After a neighbor heard a shriek the police showed up to his place and the narrator invited them to go ahead and search the house and then they sit right above the dead body. Everything is going well until the narrator hears the old man’s heart beating rapidly and he confesses to the
The story begins with a narrator telling the reader he is not insane. He claims that his senses are sharpened and that he hears the sounds in heaven, earth and hell. He concludes that it was not his fault that he committed murder but the old man’s evil eye. He then tells how he observes the old man for several days until the day he finally kills him and buries him under the floorboards of the house. After a neighbor heard a shriek the police showed up to his place and the narrator invited them to go ahead and search the house and then they sit right above the dead body. Everything is going well until the narrator hears the old man’s heart beating rapidly and he confesses to the