“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe was narrated by an unknown narrator. We assume he was a man mainly for the reason that he said, “You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing” (1). The story was supposedly about the narrator’s fear of an old man’s eye, but I rather see it as the narrator not fearing the eye itself, but fearing how the eye made him feel. For one thing, the narrator had a fear of the old man’s eye because it resembled a vulture’s eye. “He had the eye of a vulture –a pale blue eye, with film over it” (1.) Vultures are scavengers who watch their prey closely and precisely. As said in the story “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.” The old man never did the narrator any wrongdoings, but
