The Tell Tale Cat Mood

"At length it ceased. The old man was dead," brags the narrator. This story is for someone loves horror, then the Tell-Tale heart is perfect read. In the story, the narrator sees himself as cunning and sneaky. However, the reader sees him as insane and chaotic. Poe weaves a creepy tale that creates a chilling mood for the reader, involving murder. In the short story, a deranged lunatic sneaks into a man’s house day after day until he commits a awful, unforgivable deed. The author incorporates mystery and drama into the story to provoke a chilling sense of insecurity. In the story, the narrator views himself as cunning. "Ha! Would a madman be so cunning as this?'' He is sneaking into the man that he plans to kill house. As he does so, he brags to himself about how smart and sneaky he is when in reality, he sneaked into someone's home and plans …show more content…
"I foamed -I raved- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting and grated it upon the boards but the noise arose over all and continually increased. " This shows that the author creates a chilling mood because the man is wildly freaking out because he can't live with the fact that he just murdered someone. This quote gives the reader a sense of disturbance and explains what's happening inside the main character's head. The author also creates a bit of an anxiety provoking scene, while he talks to the police that showed up to the scene of the murder. "All in vain; because death, in approaching him, had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim." This gives off an anxiety producing scene because the old man knows the deranged man is watching him in bed in the dark and that death is inevitable. The scene explains that the old man is in bed, but is afraid because he heard somebody come into his room, and that man is now watching him. The reader receives a goose-bump inducing mood out this