This absurdity can be seen when the caretaker, everynight at midnight, would go inside the elderly man’s room to watch for the vulture eye to open while he slept, “Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in”(Poe 1). In this statement, the caretaker would slowly, to not disturb or wake the old man, thrust his head inside the bedroom to watch as he slept. The caretaker clearly shows a dark side of his personality from this action, and further progresses this through believing his action of watching someone sleep to be something funny and even amusing. In addition, the caretaker, after dismembering the corpse and hiding it, allows three officers to enter his house. Even though, the caretaker had just suffocated the elderly man, he decides to pull chairs up for the officers before realizing the beat from the old man’s heart could be heard, “It was a low, dull, quick sound--much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” (Poe 3). The body of the elderly man was stone cold dead according to the caretaker, and had even been torn apart after that. Therefore, the beating of the old man’s heart was merely in the caretakers head, showing signs that the caretakers mind had most certainly turned into a crazy, mush of
This absurdity can be seen when the caretaker, everynight at midnight, would go inside the elderly man’s room to watch for the vulture eye to open while he slept, “Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in”(Poe 1). In this statement, the caretaker would slowly, to not disturb or wake the old man, thrust his head inside the bedroom to watch as he slept. The caretaker clearly shows a dark side of his personality from this action, and further progresses this through believing his action of watching someone sleep to be something funny and even amusing. In addition, the caretaker, after dismembering the corpse and hiding it, allows three officers to enter his house. Even though, the caretaker had just suffocated the elderly man, he decides to pull chairs up for the officers before realizing the beat from the old man’s heart could be heard, “It was a low, dull, quick sound--much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton” (Poe 3). The body of the elderly man was stone cold dead according to the caretaker, and had even been torn apart after that. Therefore, the beating of the old man’s heart was merely in the caretakers head, showing signs that the caretakers mind had most certainly turned into a crazy, mush of