This story has many underlying meanings to it however, the most prominent symbolisms to focus on are guilt and insanity. However, guilt sets in and the man apparently hears the heart beating underneath him, which drives him crazy until he finally confesses his sins. He even decides to literally sit on top of where he has hidden the dismantled body parts. With his confidence and adrenaline at an all-time high, the man invites the police to sit down and relax, convincing them there is nothing wrong. Eventually, the police arrive at his door because a neighbor heard a scream, so the police then proceed to search the house and ask the man questions. The man is extremely careful to hide the body so that no one will ever find it. The older man’s eye is extremely bothering to the caretaker (who is arguably insane already), so he decides to act on the “vulture eye” and kill the older man. A nameless man is the caretaker of another older nameless man. Understanding the plot is a key factor in comprehending the meaningfulness of this dark story. Furthermore, he uses dark diction to emphasize the self-destructiveness of guilt and how it can fluctuate the confidence of a man. Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” conveys a symbolic way of showing how one man drives himself farther into insanity through his own guilt. The stories coming from the mind of Poe were always dark and riddled with layers of symbolism. He had critiqued and written many classic stories such as “The Raven” and other well-known stories. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe was at his peak of writing poetry for literary magazines.
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