Poe's Short Stories

The Tell-Tale Heart

What do we know about the old man in the story? What motivates the narrator to kill him?

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All we know is that the mentally unbalanced and wholly unreliable narrator lives with the old man. The narrator complains about the old man's eye that seems to bother him to no end.

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