How Did The Narrator Kill The Old Man

The narrator knew that he was going to murder the old man because of the eye, so he decided to be kind to him the whole week. For seven straight nights, around midnight, he would crack open the old man’s door very slowly. He did not want to make too much noise because he did not want to wake the old man up. He says, “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so that I could see the old man as he lay upon his bed” (Bedford 1187). Just thinking about it, an hour is 60 minutes. That is quite a long time to be trying to just crack open a door. Since he had schizophrenia, he took his precious time because he obviously had all the time in the world. When he used the lantern, he only did it to where “a single then ray fell upon the vulture eye” (Bedford 1187). The eye was always closed for those seven nights and so there was no way that he could kill the old man because his eye was not open. In order for him to do …show more content…
People with schizophrenia tend to feel guilty a lot when they know that they are about to do something really bad. So for the narrator, he knows that this is the man’s last week that he will ever be alive. When the old man would wake up in the morning time, he would ask him how he slept and how he got through the night. The old man never suspected anything like someone watching him as he slept peacefully.
It is the eighth night and like usual he goes to the old man’s door. He approaches it as he normally does and opens it up slowly. This time though, he laughs because he finds it funny how the old man has no idea about what he has been doing every single night for the past seven nights. He thinks that the old man had heard him laugh because the old man started to move around in his bed. He did not stop opening the door, but instead he opened the door further this time. He was about to shine the light on the old man, but then the man said, “Who’s there?” (Bedford 1187). He was scared and so he decided not to move