The Tell-Tale Heart begins and continues to have a consistent time phase which is at night, specifically midnight for the eight days this story is told in. While the locale is always at an old house the two of them share. That main character is an unnamed man who describes himself as “not a madman”, a sane being, a wise, patient, and calm man. He is a roommate of an old man, who he describes as someone who would never do wrong, he loved the guy. But one thing about the old man bothered him, “he had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye”. During the story, it is revealed in the exposition that it is a first person point of view with the main writing technique, the usage of flashbacks where it truly showed the main character’s frustrations,
