If you have read the “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, then you would know that the main character is mentally ill. If you haven’t read the story or ever heard of it before (which would be a surprise), then it is best you know what happened in the story. As we further pick away at the details of this story, we will uncover the narrator’s motives, why he did what he did, and how all of this can be true. To understand who this man is, we have to discover what he did that caused him to be in the situation that he is now. In the story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, we are greeted by a “normal” main character, the narrator says. The narrator of this story is the main character, continually repeating that he isn’t “mad” and attempts to prove
