Tell Tale Heart Mood

In the story The Tell Tale Heart, the narrator’s tone in the story in describing the uncomfortable atmosphere and melancholy feelings to contribute the theme of the story. The tone of the story was expressed as paranoia and suspense. The narrator’s ideas of mood influence reader’s mood as terrifying and stressful emotion throughout the story. “It grew quicker, and louder every instant. The old man’s terror must have been extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!” (Poe 3). Poe created the perspective of the madman who has committed a crime, and given the reader imagery to imagine the man’s behavior, and thought to admit the guilt that the man is murdering the old man. Similarly, the author used the sad tone to convey through the internal