The arguments given are the products of a contrived reality, a façade of sanity. The narrator speaks of how he “was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before killed him,” taking logical precautions that might just as well have been taken by a sane man as an insane one. The narrator, in order to prove his sanity, characterizes himself as calm and even-minded, painting a picture of sanity through his explanation of the manner in which he planned the murder. Through his portrayal of the conflict between the reality of the actions of the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the reality manufactured by said narrator, Edgar Allen Poe shows his reader that the line between sanity and insanity is indeed a fine one. A short analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
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