Some stories make readers feel depressed, anxious or excited. Each story has its own unique mood. Mood is defined as the feeling created in the reader. In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe cleverly creates a mood of horror. One aspect of the story that fits this creepy, scary mood is Poe’s use of characterization. An unnamed narrator begins the tale by attempting to prove to his audience that he is not mad but is more enlightened than the average person when he says “I heard many things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell” (39). It is suspicious that the narrator is trying so hard to convince the audience that he’s not mad. Plus, it sounds like the narrator is hearing things which may be the sign of a
