The Tell Tale Heart
Beginning of paper
“” covers a period of approximately eight
days with most of the important action occurring each night around
midnight. The location is the home of an elderly man in which the
narrator has become a caretaker.
This story contains a nameless narrator, an old man and the
police who ....
Middle of paper
.... no need to identify his sexless
narrator. However, Poe was a perfectionist who left very little to
guesswork. Could it be that this was no accident or something that
he thought would be universally understood, but that Poe was
creating a story whose impact could be changed simply by
imagining this horrendous and vile deed being committed by a
woman?
Poe writes this story from the perspective of the murderer of the
old man. When an author creates a situation where the protagonist
t ....
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Word count: 894
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
