In Poe’s written work, he creates fear and dread to his readers. He creates fear and dread with his characters. The narrator in the story “The Tell- Tale Heart” creates those feelings, “Now at this point … I took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bead. Ha! —would a madman have been so wise as this?” (Poe 303). The narrator is trying to convince the reader that he is not mad because of the actions he is taking, he is implying that a mad man would be careless and stupid, but the narrator see’s himself as normal because everything is planned out and his actions are done carefully. He is also unreliable because he says he is not mad when the reader can imply that he is mad from the
