The author used first person point of view. It is a prose short story.
The story Tell Tale Heart is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. There are several important characters in the story. One would be the narrator and another one would be the policeman.
As a first person narrative, we better understand the thoughts and feelings of the character in conjunction with the events he is relating to the policemen in the story.
Poe uses the word work three times in the story, and your question is the first. The second time is this: "I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work;", and the third is in reference to the work of concealing the body. I believe that "the work", according to the narrator, is the elimination of the vulture (or evil) eye.
The murderer admits to killing the old man
The resolution of 'The Tell Tale Heart' is that the authorities walk in and start asking the dude questions and he starts to go crazy because he can hear the heart beating under the floor boards.
the narrator stalks the old man for three days until he finally kills him but then has to hide him from the police and that's when he confesses
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe is suspenseful, dark, and foreboding.
Squandering his wealth in an attempt to gain the affection of a beautiful woman, Federigo degli Alberighi is left with only a small farm and a magnificent falcon. Federigo loves Monna Giovanna, a young woman of nobility who is already married and has a son. After her wealthy husband dies, Monna and her son travel to their country estate near the farm where Federigo lives. The boy becomes friends with him and covets the prized falcon.
Soon the boy is sick. He has one request: "Mother, if you can arrange for me to have Federigo's falcon, I think I would get well quickly." (p. 427) Monna is well aware of Federigo's love for her, but she also realizes how attached the man is to the falcon. Monna makes an unannounced visit to Federigo's farm. Before she declares the purpose of her call, he decides to honor Monna with a meal.
Unfortunately, Federigo has nothing to serve her. He catches a glimpse of his falcon on its perch. He breaks its neck and has it roasted on a spit. Monna eats the bird unaware that it is the animal she has come to request for her son. After dining, she asks Federigo for his falcon. All he can do is weep. He then reveals that he sacrificed the creature to provide a meal worthy of Monna. A few days later, her son dies. After a period of sorrow and resentment, she marries Federigo.
Parallelism (with "had never")
He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult.
And again a bit later (with "there was none"):
Object there was none. Passion there was none.
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator hid the old man's entire body underneath the planks in his bed chamber. He did not actually hide a human heart, rather the entire dismembered corpse.
Although not specific, "The Tell-Tale Heart" seems to be set within a house shared by the old man and his killer; there is some suggestion of a family relationship, as the narrator says that he loved his victim but "he did not covet the old man's wealth." There is a mood of paranoia throughout the story as the narrator is obsessed with the idea of the old man's eyes, "a pale-blue, film-covered eye like that of a vulture, that he could not stand" and the "evil eye" causes his blood to run cold. The mood actually wavers between that of sheer insanity as the narrator expresses maniacal glee at the prospect of doing away with his tormentor and paranoia after the heart beat begins to drive him mad. The mood is also, as is true in many of Poe's story, one of suspense. The night time observance of the old man, the murder, and the interview with the police are all seasons that rely upon the suspense of the reader to be effective. Will the narrator actually kill him? Will he confess? These are questions that ae lingered upon in detail before the answers are revealed.
These are the quotes that support the rising question of "The Tell-Tale Heart":
"I talked more quickly-more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased."
"But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this decision! I felt that I must scream or die!-and now-again!-hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!-"
Twice Poe uses the phrase: "as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." to describe what the narrator hears.
He is unreliable because he's crazy. Mad might be a better word for him, as in 'Mad as a Hatter' because his symptoms suggest mercury poisoning.
The Tell-tale Heart
In the Tell-tale Heart, the narrator is trying to convince the reader that he is not insane. He gives the story as proof that he is not. However all the story really does is make the reader see how completely insane he actually is.
The narrator tells the story of an old man, whom he claims to love, except for his offending "horrible" eye, which is described as being pale blue with a film over it. The narrator goes to the old man's room each night at midnight to kill him, but the old man has his eyes closed. The narrator can't kill the old man when his eyes are closed because he doesn't have a problem with the man, only with the eye.
On the eighth night, the old man wakes up when the narrator enters the room. The old man screams, and the narrator kills him. He dismembers the old man's body and hides him beneath the floor boards.
A neighbor reported hearing a scream to the police, and they show up to investigate. The narrator tells them that he screamed in his sleep, and that the old man is out of town. As he sits and talks to the police, he begins to hear a ticking sound, and is convinced that the sound is the old man's heart beating beneath the floor boards. He freaks out and confesses his crime to the police, directing them to the old man's body and telling them that the sound he hears is his heart.
1843
The "Tell Tale Heart" was written in 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe.
1843
You mean The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, published in 1843
You mean The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, published in 1843
the narrator will be charged with the murder