The man in this story is a psychopath with a guilty conscious who somehow maintains to be slightly sane. A example he is a psychopath is the quote “ the old man gave a loud cry of fear as i fell upon him and held the bedcovers tightly over his head”. Another example is “ yes. He was dead! Dead as a stone. His eye would trouble me no more”!.
This completely shows this man in this story is a psychopath.
The man has a guilty conscious an example why he has a guilty conscious is the quote
“I was suffering more than i could bear, from their smiles, and from that