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The Tell-Tale Heart Conflict
There are two quarrel within "The Tell-Tale Heart," the first is the narrator's engrossment with the man's "vulture" eye and the second is the reality that the narrator is trying to persuade the reader in believing there sane.

First off, the narrator is engrossed with the man's vulture eye, declared that "one of his eyes resembled that of a vulture--a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold". The narrator tells us that there was no strong emotion in their strategy to rid thereself of the old man's evil eye neither did they didn't want any of the old man's money; the man had "never wronged him". This conflict is simply created due to the old man's eye that distressed the narrator and made him feel uneasy,

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