Life is like a rosary, it’s full of mysteries. This motto relates to these stories who was written by Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Stephen King. Firstly, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator hates the eye of the old man and decides to kill him to be free of it. Secondly in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator suffers from depression and has been isolated in a room with a yellow wallpaper with different patterns that made her think that there was a woman behind it who is trying to break free from the wall. Lastly in “The Strawberry Spring”, a “false” spring, much like an Indian summer, when several students are murdered by a guy named “Springheel Jack” who left no clues not even footprints and in the end the narrator was scared
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With this in mind he confesses and ruins his “perfect crime”. As a matter of fact, the narrator in the “Strawberry Spring” said, “I’ve been thinking about the trunk of my car--such an ugly word, trunk--and wondering why in the world I should be afraid to open it” (King 7). According to that he was scared that he might be the killer. But the truth is he does not remember anything that happened before. However, the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is more unreliable because he was proud that the crime was clean and there's no marks that can put him in jail. The narrator once said that, “I think it was his eye!” (Poe 1). This shows that the old man’s eye really bothers him and the way he thinks. Which makes him unreliable because the way he said that it was the eye, shows that he was unsure about it. That makes people think that there is another reason behind it. Later on, someone came to the old man’s house, “I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search--search well” (Poe 3). He’s confident and thinks that it was a perfect crime that’s why he placed his chair above the dead body. The narrator’s untrustworthiness is shown by how calmly he narrates what happened on the day he murdered the old guy just to prove he is not insane. The crime that he thought was perfect was not because of his mental defenses crashed down …show more content…
As can be seen in the way he sneaks into his room late at night for eight nights in a row demonstrates his obsessiveness for the old man. This also emphasizes the fact that he loves the old man, but only for his “evil eye” that results to the killing that makes the narrator unreliable. Unlike the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, because she admits the she is unwell and she could not take care of her own child because she is scared that she might do something on the baby. Also the narrator in the “Strawberry Spring”, because he was afraid to open his own trunk thinking that he might be the killer though he does not remember anything. All in all, the narrator’s obsession for the eye affects his thinking and behavior--which establishes his unreliability in the
With this in mind he confesses and ruins his “perfect crime”. As a matter of fact, the narrator in the “Strawberry Spring” said, “I’ve been thinking about the trunk of my car--such an ugly word, trunk--and wondering why in the world I should be afraid to open it” (King 7). According to that he was scared that he might be the killer. But the truth is he does not remember anything that happened before. However, the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is more unreliable because he was proud that the crime was clean and there's no marks that can put him in jail. The narrator once said that, “I think it was his eye!” (Poe 1). This shows that the old man’s eye really bothers him and the way he thinks. Which makes him unreliable because the way he said that it was the eye, shows that he was unsure about it. That makes people think that there is another reason behind it. Later on, someone came to the old man’s house, “I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search--search well” (Poe 3). He’s confident and thinks that it was a perfect crime that’s why he placed his chair above the dead body. The narrator’s untrustworthiness is shown by how calmly he narrates what happened on the day he murdered the old guy just to prove he is not insane. The crime that he thought was perfect was not because of his mental defenses crashed down …show more content…
As can be seen in the way he sneaks into his room late at night for eight nights in a row demonstrates his obsessiveness for the old man. This also emphasizes the fact that he loves the old man, but only for his “evil eye” that results to the killing that makes the narrator unreliable. Unlike the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, because she admits the she is unwell and she could not take care of her own child because she is scared that she might do something on the baby. Also the narrator in the “Strawberry Spring”, because he was afraid to open his own trunk thinking that he might be the killer though he does not remember anything. All in all, the narrator’s obsession for the eye affects his thinking and behavior--which establishes his unreliability in the