He tells us, “There was nothing to wash out - no stain of any kind - no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for this.” After seven nights of planning the crime, he took, even more, precaution to hide the body in such a way, that even the cops would not be able to find the old man. If he was simply insane, he wouldn’t have spent so long devising a plan. He would’ve rushed into it. Finally, he seems just as calm later on in the story. When the police came to the man’s house after getting alerted of a shriek by the neighbors, he told them, “The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search - search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed.” Despite the officers being in the home, sent to make sure everything was alright, he still seemed calmer than ever and let them search the house. Again ,he was proud of his work, but if he wasn’t sensible, then why would he be proud? So is the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart Insane? There are many arguments about this, however, there is no clear answer. Will we ever discover the answer? Maybe it will never be found, becoming a secret lost in
He tells us, “There was nothing to wash out - no stain of any kind - no blood-spot whatever. I had been too wary for this.” After seven nights of planning the crime, he took, even more, precaution to hide the body in such a way, that even the cops would not be able to find the old man. If he was simply insane, he wouldn’t have spent so long devising a plan. He would’ve rushed into it. Finally, he seems just as calm later on in the story. When the police came to the man’s house after getting alerted of a shriek by the neighbors, he told them, “The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search - search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed.” Despite the officers being in the home, sent to make sure everything was alright, he still seemed calmer than ever and let them search the house. Again ,he was proud of his work, but if he wasn’t sensible, then why would he be proud? So is the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart Insane? There are many arguments about this, however, there is no clear answer. Will we ever discover the answer? Maybe it will never be found, becoming a secret lost in