Who Is The Protagonist In The Tell Tale Heart

In the story The Tell Tale heart, by Allen Poe, a narrator unlike no other is introduced. The narrator gradually talks about how he has killed an old man, whom he may or may not be related to and later reveals he himself committed the act to the police. When reading a story many people chose to believe what is being read, but this narrator is not to be trusted. The details and information gathered from the story is concluded that the narrator is daydreaming and did not commit the act of killing. Many details from the story also support the reason why he is dreaming such an act of killing. The clock never stops ticking even if it was a desire of yours. The timing the narrator gives is too vague that it is hard to keep up with. Hard to believe that for a whole hour he did not move a muscle, whenever one stands for a very long time the body tends to weaken or get tired. The …show more content…
In the real world it is expected at least a couple drops of blood because someone cannot be that perfect when handling a death body. Many times people are not careful with the steps they take or how they handle a body, which is led to conclude that their had to be at least one drop of blood on him or on the floor, but narrator claims, “A tub had caught it all” (Poe). Although, it is also hard to believe that not one drop got on his clothing. As an instinct if it was anyone else a change of clothes would have been made and after changing, those clothes are tossed in the trash or burned just in case of any blood marks, but the narrator did not even mention any of that. This is another example of how it is a daydream because even though it is thought out, it is not thoroughly thought out the way a killer would act. Being careful is always an important part when killing or disposing of the body, but it is as if the narrator was too careful for it to be