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Insane Is The Narrator Insane
The narrator in the story is insane, because he loves the dark. The narrator does weird things showing that he’s insane. The narrator does live in the creepy house alone sometimes. The narrator is just insane it’s kind of hard to explain. The narrator in the story is insane because the way he’s acting. He stays in the house, he loves the dark, he stays in the creepy house. The narrator in the story is insane because he’s always in the house. Don’t you think sometimes he should go outside? Staying in the house all day will have you feeling like you in prison. Since the house is the way it is he shouldn’t be staying there. The narrator in the story is living in this creepy old house. How could he live in a house like that? If he wasn’t insane he wouldn’t be staying there. He’s living in a house with decayed trees on the outside. The house that the narrator is living in is all messed up. …show more content…
The narrator loves the dark. How could he see in the dark? The house is already old and creepy. Living in the dark will only make it worse. The creepy house is like its watching with its creepy eye like windows.
The narrator in the story is insane because he stays in the house in the dark all day. He stays in that creepy old house by himself. The narrator on the story is insane because the way he’s acting, he’s living in that creepy house, he loves the dark, and he stays in the

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