Examples Of Psychopath In The Tell Tale Heart

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The old man screams as the mattress gets pulled over his body. The Narrator from The Tell Tale Heart is a psychopath because he kills the old man because of his Evil/Vulture EYE. He also is nice to the old man even though he wants to kill him and this is a psychopathic trait this is being two faced. The narrator stalks the old man seven nights before killing him.
The old man in The Tell Tale Heart has a evil/Vulture eye as the narrator calls it. The narrator believes the old man's eye is evil because of what it looks like."(Poe, Edgar Allen )" He believes the old man should die just because the narrator hates the evil EYE. The narrator says their is nothing wrong with the old man except his Evil EYE. "(Poe,

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