"Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the shortest short stories Edgar Allan Poe had ever written. It is a magnificent tale of mental deterioration in which Poe uses his wording very efficiently. The story is told by an unnamed narrator who is attempting to defend his sanity yet confessing to having killed an old man. It is one of the greatest stories ever written and Poe uses literary devices such as point of view and symbolism and the element of theme to fully develop the ideas he attempts to portray in this story.
In this tale of criminal insanity, Poe uses an unnamed first-person narrative. …
