In the Tell-Tale Heart By: Edgar Allen Poe the story is told from the point of the narrator. In the piece he is telling it from a first person perspective but doesn't bother to mention his name.There are many examples in the text that prove to us that he is not quite a normal man in the head....If you know what I mean.
One example to the narrators Un-trustworthiness is the fact that he is so keen about the old man's eye. Under usual circumstances someone would notice the eye and take note, but the narrator he creates a strong disliking to the. This hatred is so strong that he feels that he must get rid of the cloudy eye and that is not natural.Another example of this theory is the repetition of him poking his head into the old man's room so many times and so cautiously. The final example of him being not so right is the fact that he kills the old man over a cloudy looking eye which is blind.
However the narrator could have a mental disorder that would tell us if he was a crazy man or just had a medical issue. If this was caused by a medical issue all these thought would be completely rational for him.ADHD or OCD could have caused to pay so much attention to the eye.
Because of these facts or theories the narrator was obviously unreliable due to the fact of impaired thought. No matter what the cause for the decision was for the murder mental or physical, the story ends up with one man dead and chopped into little pieces and the other in jail for murder.
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