Response Journal – The Tell-Tale Heart

If i had to describe this story in a word, confusing would be the best match. As soon as you start reading it, you're put inside the mind of a mad man who's trying to convince himself that he is completly normal. The main charactor, which is the narrator, is putting us through this quest of trying to kill an old man. His quest is animated by hatred. You would probably think that  it is towards the old man but this is where the story gets tricky. Everything was normal between these two characters but the old man had something that made the narrator hated him to the point where he had to kill him. The narrator hated the eye of the old man and it drove him crazy.

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