The Tell-Tale Heart Insane Analysis

The killer in the story “The Tell Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe, seems to be criminally insane because no one would kill someone because of the way their eye looks, he said he loved the man, and he was crazy enough to kill him with the man’s very own bed, chop him up, put him in the floorboard, then set right on top of him. The killer was insane because no one should kill someone because their eye looks creepy. “His eye resembled a vulture's eye” said the killer on page 145 second paragraph. He didn’t have to kill the man “rid himself of the eye forever” hown on page 145 paragraph two he could’ve just ignored the man. Also, he said he love the man in the beginning of the story and no one should or even would kill someone they love unless