Poe's Short Stories

Story: "The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Characterization: Describe TWO characters in the story -- the old man and the narrator. Try to provide five details, like you did for the setting. You can describe their external characteristics (appearance) or their internal characteristics (personality) or their behaviour (the things they do). Give one example of how characterization is inferred.

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Narrator

The murderer of the old man who claims he is hypersensitive rather than insane. He cannot stand the old man's eye, which prompts the killing. Although he goes about the murder very carefully and systematically, he is driven to distraction by the sound of the dead man's beating heart.

Old Man

An unsuspecting man who treats the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" well, but nevertheless drives his companion to murder.

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