Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" is a short story about what happens when murder is committed and what happens in the mind of the murderer. It is a classic psychological story. The narrator is driven to his act of murder by an unstable mind and by the fact that man's cloudy blue eye constantly seemed to be staring at him. The narrator kills the old man, dismembers the corpse, then buries it beneath the floorboards in his house. The narrator suffers guilt, his conscience is toxic, and he cries out. When the police come to check out his house, they find nothing. Still, the narrator hears the rhythmic beating of the old man's heart until he can stand it no more. He admits the deed and screams for the floorboards to be torn up.
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