incidents happened around him.

Is it really a simple scream that makes him call

the police? Definitely not, we can say that the neighbor has got something about
the relationship between the old man and the narrator and his hatred of the old
man. In general people will not be awake at 4 o'clock-the time that the crime has
been committed-and why should this neighbor be awake in that time so we get to
know that he was aware of the narrator’s intention for killing the old man otherwise
he should not be awake in that time of the night and of course a simple scream
can not be a good reason for waking someone up.

Atmosphere

We can find the mystery all through the story and this mystery starts by the
narrator talking about the sinister eye of the old man. It is also a horror story that
ends to a manslaughter. The scene that the narrator cuts off the old man’s body
can be the most horrible part of the story. The atmosphere of a story usually is
created at the start of the story.

Conflict

The protagonist has conflicts with different people in the story. The first and the
most important one is his conflict with the old man. He suffers from looking at
the old man’s eye. The conflict leads to his decision for killing the old man. The
protagonist of this story-the narrator-has also conflict with himself. We can see
that when the police officers are talking with him he hears the heart beat of the old
man. But this is not a real one, this is his imagination and he tries to soothe
himself but he is not completely successful.

Theme

The theme of the story is that sometimes one little burden can bring big
consequences. For example the narrator in this story was annoyed by the old
man’s eye which caused him to commit murder. This is the main theme that is
conspicuous through the story and we can see that the narrator repeatedly talking
about the old man’s eye as a troublesome matter. We can observe the same thing
in real world. So many people are dealing with the very small problems