College Essay

In the story The Tell Tale-Heart by Edgar Allan Poe there are two main characters. They are the old man and the Narrator. In the story they both have different but yet some of the same states of mind.

The old man has a couple different states of mind. One of those is that he is very unsuspecting. He is unsure and unsuspecting of what is happening. The old man is also frightened that someone might be entering his room. He thinks he hears or senses somebody but is too afraid to look. Another state of mind that the old man has is how he does not know what to do. So he just sits there in his bed not knowing how to handle the situation.

The Narrator also has a few states of mind. He is very angry about the old man's vulture eye. In the Narrators mind the vulture eye is very evil and a disgrace. He plans on murdering the old man because of the vulture eye. He doesn't think he is crazy for murdering the old man because of the vulture eye. The Narrator also has a guilty conscience. He shows us this in the story when he comes clean to the police. Those are the Narrators states of mind throughout the story.

In the story both the old man and the Narrator have some of the same states of mind. In the beginning both the old man and the Narrator like each other. In the middle of the story they both know the old man is scared when he is afraid somebody is entering his room. Also they are both in the some way thinking about death. The old man thinks of it in the way of his possible death by murder. The Narrator thinks of death in the way of killing the old man. These are some of the same states of mind that both the old man and the Narrator have throughout the story.

The old man and the Narrator have different states of mind. But, yet they have a few of the same states of mind.