The main character of the story, the narrator, has a problem with an old man, the antagonist whom he is living with. One odd part of the story is that the problem has nothing to do with the old man, how he acts or his attitude towards the narrator. It is simply one of the old man's eyes, which is either blind or not up to one hundred percent visibility. The narrator

His reasoning for wanting the old man dead is without motive. He tells us, "I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire."(303) The narrator was coming to the realization that he had logical reason for the murder of the old man. The truth of the matter is that he knows that he cannot

We have no idea of the relationship between the old man and the narrator. Could they have been related in some way or was the narrator simply a servant that spent his days caring for the elderly man? The narrator has left a lot up to our imagination on the relationship of the characters.

The narrator begins to believe that he hears the old man's heart beating while he was killing him, and after he was dead. The pounding bec

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Approximate Word count = 521
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)