Psychopath In The Tell Tale Heart

"It was open --wide, wide open --and I grew furious as I gazed upon it." This quote from the Tell Tale Heart in which the narrator speaks of the old man's eye is just one of the many examples of how he is truly a mad man, a mad man with multiple psychopathic tendencies. He not only killed the old man that he liked so very much because of his sinister eye but he also cut him up into tiny pieces and hid him in the floorboard beneath his feet! The narrator didn't have a heart, he didn't feel sympathy or remorse for the old man when he killed him. Infact, he felt relieved that the eye could haunt him no more. Not only did the narrator have no sympathy for other people but he was smooth, he knew how to talk to people and he thought of himself as the best out of everyone. ("Psychopathic") …show more content…
Thinking that everything he did was just so amazing and that no one could have done it better or just as good as him. In about almost every paragraph he would say that he was good at cleaning things up and making it look like nothing had ever happened. (" Psychopathic") Even when he had woken up the old man and stayed still throughout multiple minutes and then he finally had the guts to open the lantern door just a little bit wider, and when he did that little ray of light had hit the old man straight in the vulture eye, and the old man had said that he had great skills and he wasn't even trying to make it land on the eye that he hated so very much. This Is just one of the many other things that make him a hideous cold blooded