Imagine the sight of an old man's eye, vulturous, pale blue, with a film covering it. Could this drive one's self so insane that one would murder a man because of it? This is the event that occurs in Edgar Allen Poe's vivid tale The Tell-Tale Heart. The story is a recount of events that have already taken place and is being told by a nameless narrator. Poe does not even go into detail as …showed first 75 words of 713 total…

…showed last 75 words of 713 total…minutes” or “an hour”. Then Poe switches to a non-descriptive version of time. “When I had waited a long time, very patiently.”(Poe, 36) He no longer gives a description of how much time has passed since the last action. Poe uses his narrator to describe two confrontations in this story, the narrator vs. the old man and the narrator vs. his own sanity. The old man looses his life and the narrator looses his sanity.