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I have always been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe and his many works, but I have never really taken one of his stories and looked at it from an analytical perspective, until now. The short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” is one of my favorites. It is the story of a murder told from the killer’s own eyes. The story begins with the narrator (the killer) trying to convince the reader that he is not “mad”. He says that he will prove that he is not crazy by how calmly he tells the story, and by how well he committed the murder. The man that the narrator killed was an old man that lived with him who had cataracts. The eye with the blue film over it bothered the killer so much that he decided that he had to kill the old man just to get rid of the eye that vexed him so much. After he killed the man he took off his arms, legs and his head and stuffed him underneath the planks of the floor. The police soon showed