Tell-Tale Heart

Tell-Tale Heart, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in the year of 1843, is a detailed story of one man's fear of another and how this leads into a murder. Or is it a murder? In this story, a man supposedly kills an older man because he does not like the older man's "Blue Vulture Eye." It takes the man 8 nights to finally attack the older man. He puts the older man under a bed and sufficates him to death. This is not enough. He begans to dissemble the older man's body and hides the pieces under the planks in the floor. A neighbor hears screams and calls the police. The police arrive at the door and ask if there is anything wrong. The man replies no and to make it seem totally normal, he invites the officers inside. The man gives the officers seats and places his on top of where the body is. This is where it gets interesting. The man claims he hears the old man's heart beating and it gets increasingly louder and louder. Keep in mind, the man is dead so how is it possible that his is beating. It isn't. I believe what the man is hearing or feeling is guilt. He's surprise that his lie is going so well and it's scaring him to the point that he THINKS the police are expceting something. If he is actually hearing a heart beat, it could be his own. His heartbeat is getting faster the more guilty he feels. After enough, he pulls up the boards of the floor and admits that he has killed this man. My confusion is on why this old man's eye bothered him so much to the point of death. This man has no clear case. At the court, his lawyer wouldn't be able to defend him because his reason for murdering this older was unlegit. There could have been a story behind this eye that the man was afraid of, who knows. The older man could have been his father and when he was younger, the eye might've scared him away from a relationship his father. This man is indeed crazy, as he continuously tries to persuade the reader that he is not. Even if this man were having a dream, the idea of muder and finding joy out of it is indeed psycho.