What are some character traits for the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart?

Answer 1

Pride- He believes he is smart enough to get away with killing the old man. He also thinks that you have to be smart to sneak into the room.

Guilt- After he murdered the man and the police men where in his living room he believed that he heard the old mans heart beat just like he used to all though the man is already dead and under the floorboards.

Cruel- He killed the old man instead of moving out or asking him to cover eye.

Crazy- He thinks he can hear the old mans heartbeat and believes the eye is evil.

Answer 2

The character is the murderer who kills an old man with a deficient eye. In the beginning he denies that he is crazy for doing such a thing, but really is crazy because of the fact he killed the old man because of paranoia. He eventually loses his cool for murdering the old man to the police when he thinks he hears a heart pounding from the floorboards (believing that it is the old man's heart in which the character chopped up his corpse and buried it under the floorboards).

Answer 3

-the narrator

-the old man

-three police detectives

Answer 4

there are no names, just the old man and the insane character.

Answer 5

We never learn his name or exactly what his relationship is to the old man, but the main character is the killer.