Poe's Short Stories
The Tell-Tale Heart
In spite of all his precautions, the narrator does not commit the perfect crime. What trips him up?
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He narrator, like most of Poe's protagonists, is crazy. He imagines he hears the heartbeat of his dismembered friend that he has stuffed under the floorboards. It is his obsessive fixation with his crime and delusions of grandeur that eventually gives him away.
