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It can be said that the narrator is "unreliable".

Unreliable! He's down right Looney Tunes.
First Person, Unreliable.

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The Tell-Tale Heart begins with the narrator insisting that they are not insane despite their meticulous planning to murder an old man who they claim has an evil eye. The narrator's obsession with the old man's eye drives them to commit the crime.

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