In the excerpt, “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Edgar Allan Poe creates the guilty character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of the ringing in the story, the unnamed guy going insane, and when he was talking to himself. Poe illustrates a story about a nervous man and reveals that throughout this excerpt the unnamed man is guilty of what he has done, even though it may not show what he has done. The unnamed speaker of this story shows a guilty, paranoid, and schizophrenic actions by a quote that he says through the story, “For what I had to fear?” The author in this story is showing indirect characterization because he refers to certain aspects.
These certain aspects of the excerpt are “the ringing became
These certain aspects of the excerpt are “the ringing became