Author Edgar Allen Poe has his own ideas when it comes to writing an effective short story. One of his works, The Tell-Tale Heart demonstrates these ideas; the first being Totality due to the short length of the story. Here are the ways that the story meets his ideas on effect. He begins the story with the narrator telling us, “True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.” This disease that he describes acts as the main drive for the entire story and for that I feel that the initial sentences facilitates the effect, or outcome. Imagination, Poe combines the emotions of Love
