The author Edgar Allan Poe did an amazing job of painting a mental image of the setting during the story The Tell-Tale Heart. He creates an amazing mental image by using in-depth details that bring the setting of the story to life. During the story, very early on, readers will witness a very good and explicit description of the setting . An example of Poe describing the setting is ( lines 54-55). “His room was as black as pitch with thick darkness (for the shutters were closed fastened, through …show more content…
Edgar brings to life the narrator's motives my saying (lines 12-15) “ I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” This snippet is a very good example of the vividness Poe uses during The Tell-Tale Heart to describe the narrator’s motives. Instead of just saying the eye drove him crazy, he described the eye very vividly by saying (lines 13-14) “ He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” Edgar also went into details on the eye’s effects on the narrator (line 15) “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” . That is how Edgar Allan Poe so vividly described the narrator’s motive for the murder of the old