When I Decide To Kill A Man

When you're perfectly calm when dismembering a body, obviously you're not mad. Throughout the entire poem, the narrator repeated expressed signs of rather extreme insanity.
From the beginning of the short story, the narrator has always had a few screws missing. On page 1 the narrator states, "I have lost control of my mind, why do you say that I am mad?" The narrator is clearly in denial, he knows that the ideas that are swarming through his mind at the very least, indicate some sort of insanity. However, some believe that he is sane and rather just afraid of the eye, that is not the case though. Would a sane human being kill an innocent man? In the story on page 2, it says, "And so, I finally decide to kill him, kill the old man and close that eye forever." He is perfectly content with the idea of killing this man just because of his eye. Would a sane person simply not just avoid looking at it or maybe even find a new employer? The narrator isn't sane, not in the slightest. He is insane, no this man is completely deranged to the point of... murder.
It wasn't enough to simply kill the man, he dismembered his entire body. On page 3 the story states, "First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the floorboards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there." He was not frantic nor hysterical he was calm, calm enough to meticulously sever his limbs. Moreover, he uprooted the floorboards to hide the man's body. He had already so strategically thought out his plan so that no evidence would be left behind. The narrator knew the man, he lived in his home, how could someone sane do this unspeakable act to someone who had been so kind to employ