it pains the narrator to see old man’s eye and though it is not a good reason, he

decides to commit the crime. It is also noticeable that he is a very wise person
since he has a very careful plan and he is very patient to have a good opportunity
to kill the old man.

2-The old man

The old man is the antagonist of this story. We do not have much information
about the old man just the things the narrator has told about him. He is a kind
person who has never insulted the narrator and he is very old since he can not
defend himself not to be killed by the narrator. One of his eyes is not normal and it
resembled to a vulture eye. It is pale blue with a film over it. The old man must be
an ignorant person as we can find the narrator telling the murder plan and that he
has watched the old man in his bedroom but he did not understand his presence
there. We do not have much more information about this character so we are to
finish talking about him.

3-The three police officers

Police officers can be considered as flat characters since their actions are exactly
predictable and we can see they are doing the things each police officer will do in
the same situation. Although they do not have a very important role in the story
but they help to find more about the character of the narrator. Here we have to
mention that the narrator has a sly and cunning personality since he has a very
good behavior with the old man during the week he had decided to kill the old man.
He acted in a way that the old man never thinks of bad intention by the narrator. At
the end the narrator insults the police officers and accuse them of of dissembling.
The officers are clever and intelligent not to live the house immediately after they
have searched the house and they talked to the narrator to see weather he is right
or not.

4- The neighbor

The neighbor that calls the police must be exactly contrary to the old man. Though
he is not that much important in the story, we can infer that he is very alert of the