5/23/2023 0 Comments The tell tale heart meaning![]() Needless to say, the story would have the opposite of the intended effect in this situation. So he tells the story to demonstrate that he's ready to face the outside word. He's been in a number of years, and it's possible he'll be released, if he can prove his sanity. ![]() Suppose he was sentenced to do his time in a psychiatric facility. Or, maybe much more time passes before the narrator tells the tale. Maybe this is part of the interrogation process, which is followed by the story of the murder. Maybe this is what the narrator tells the police after he shows them the body. True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad? (1). Look how it seems to start in the middle of a previous conversation with someone: ![]() ![]() The beginning (which is really the ending) is a continuation of this linear narrative, but perhaps it's a more immediate continuation than we might have thought. It's completely linear, following the narrator's activities through eight nights. First, notice the structure of the narrator's tale. As the Invisible Man, in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man says, "The end in the beginning." As in that novel, chronologically speaking, the end of "The Tell-Tale Heart" actually takes place before the beginning. ![]()
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