As the tale progresses, he becomes more and more unhinged leading to the dreadful murder of the old man. Though the tale takes place in the house which the narrator shares with the old man, main setting is actually inside the obsessed mind of the narrator himself. The old man was said to keep his shutters locked. Although, the details of the house are not given. SettingĪs narrated, the only setting of the story is known to be inside a house. According to the narrator, the old man has cloudy, pale blue eyes which bothers the narrator tremendously. Old ManĬharacteristics of the old man is only known to readers through the insane protagonist’s narration. The narrator claims that he loves the old man and has no motive for the murder other than growing dislike of a cloudy film over one of the old man’s eyes. To prove that he isn’t insane, the narrator shares an event from his past. Rather, the narrator claims that he has a “disease” which makes all his senses, especially his hearing, very sensitive. In this short story, the narrator is a nameless person who explains that he is and was extremely nervous, but is not and was not insane.
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