The action of the recounted

tale takes place in the house

the narrator shares with the
"This is a story written in the first person, in which the narrator is old man. At the same time,
the main character, who tells in detail how he committed his the narrator is telling the
story from either a prison or
crime. He insists that he is not crazy and tries to justify all his
an insane asylum where he
actions. But it reveals that he suffers from nervousness, where has been incarcerated.
his senses are heightened, which is very disturbing.

ANALYSIS
SETTING

THE TELL-TALE HEART

EDGAR ALLEN POE
CHARACTERS

PLOT POLICE
NARRATOR OLD MAN
OFFICERS

This story represents an anonymous reporter bent on the

sick eye which he names as the vulture eye, of a Man who dislikesth He is killed in the 3 men who show up
grandfather with whom he lives, where he makes the eold man´s eye, then middle of the night by after being alerted to
decision to take his life, the homicide is investigated with he decides his neighbor, cut up, a disturbance and
great care after being When the body is executed, it is to killi him and hide and buried under the cause the narrator to
destroyed and hidden under the floor of the house. The his parts of his body floor. go crazy with guilt.
police appear at the scene at the same moment as the under the
criminal, thinking that the old man's heart continues to floorboards.
beat under the ground.