"Tell Tale Heart" by E.A poe short stories

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E. A Poe's short stories .

"Tell Tale Heart".

      

            "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is related by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of the narrator’s sanity while simultaneously describing a murder the narrator committed.

        

    The story was first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories.

     

The story's title says that the heart is a "tell-tale" sign. It refers to the beating heart that eventually drives the narrator to confess his crime. The reader is led to believe it is the beating of the old man's heart he hears, which is impossible, since he is dead and in pieces.

       Guilt: “The Tell-Tale Heart” is conventionally read as a moralizing story about guilt and innocence. Critics have interpreted the sound of the beating heart as the narrator's guilty conscious reminding him of his deed.

The main conflict is internal - the narrator vs. his own deteriorating mind. The fact that he does commit the murder, based on nothing but an adverse opinion of the man's eye, and that he then hears the beating of the heart coming through the floor creates the rising action and suspense.