The narrator in the story is Edgar Allen Poe himself; the story uses a first person point of view to make the audience know his inner thoughts as he played out the scheme. The narrator of the story isn’t distinctively a male or a female. The pronouns used have no actual substance in defining the narrator’s sex. The story doesn’t use names or an identity to prove which sex is applicable. Though it isn’t definite, the story used certain terms like “madmen” and other masculine based words are used to describe his thoughts. Also, the idea of a woman murdering someone, using brutal techniques other than just intoxicating, seems out of place within the story. Murder conducted by beating and mutilating someone else, isn’t generally seen as a female
