Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and poems focus on a character whose rational reasoning is overtaken by an emotional dilemma. This is the case in three of Poe’s famous works: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Raven.” “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story about an insane young man who lives with an older man. The young man claims not to be “crazy” but the reader should question his reasoning. The old man has the eye of a raven which drives the young man nearly insane. The young man creeps into the old man’s room every night to see the eye that raises so much chaos. His world of reason disintegrates as his life revolves around seeing the eye. One night as the boy is sneaking in, the man wakes up and reveals
