Tell Tale Heart Psychopath

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I think the narrator of The Tell Tale Heart is a psychopath. He hates this innocent old man for not a very good reason. He try's to make himself innocent. He says he has super hearing. He thinks he can hear the heart beating. The Narrator says that the old man has an Evil Eye. The old man may just have cataracts, but every time the narrator sees it, he goes insane. When the light shined on the old man's eye, he freaked out and killed the old man. Only a psychopath would freak out over an eye. He lied to the police. He said that the old man was visiting family in the country. That is another trait of psychopathic tendencies. I think the narrator believes he is innocent, but he is not. He is a straight up psychopath. The

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