title change.

The short story, Tell-Tale Heart, tells of a man's difficulty to cope with his housemate's eye. This drives him insane and later prompts him to kill the old man and hide him beneath the floor boards. When the police come by the house to investigate the noise, they do not suspect a thing. The narrator successfully got away with murder. So we thought. The man began to hear a loud beating sound. A sound he believed was the old man's heart. Unexpectedly, the man opens the floor boards exposing the body.
And the analysis begins... The narrator can easily be marked as an unreliable source. Everything he says can not be assumed true. He claims that he is nervous and oversensitive but not mad from the beginning of the story. The series of events following this claim show otherwise. The character's state of mind seems quite psychotic and the narration of the story seems to resemble dream logic instead of the logic of any normal person. Since this guy seems to be lying about his emotion stability, he could be lying about the entire story. He could be exaggerating the "evilness" of the old man's eye. Every word he says could be false... The analysis continues. After the narrator murders the poor old man, the police come to the home. Once they are convinced that nothing is wrong, they stay at the narrator's house and chat. This drives the man insane. He believes the policemen know about his act of murder and have caught him. All of this is clearly in his mind. The narrator has confused his mental emotions for physical emotions. Unfortunately, this misinterpretation led him to his confession.