Even though “The Tell-Tale Heart” included limited characters that did not stop Poe. Using his innovating skills to reveal the narrator, the old man, and the officers, Poe drove the story into a descriptive masterpiece. For instance, each character was revealed to the audience indirectly, the officers were described as “three men who introduced themselves with suavity,” the old man’s only description came from his name and his eye, and lastly, the narrator had no description of his own besides the madness he claimed he did not possess. Poe’s indirect descriptive technique offered his audience the freedom of imagining who the next character would be in each pause of a comma. Also allowing the narrator to describe the characters gave the story its core tone a nervous mood. In a nutshell, something this story simply could be told without is its characters and characterization to make them come to
Even though “The Tell-Tale Heart” included limited characters that did not stop Poe. Using his innovating skills to reveal the narrator, the old man, and the officers, Poe drove the story into a descriptive masterpiece. For instance, each character was revealed to the audience indirectly, the officers were described as “three men who introduced themselves with suavity,” the old man’s only description came from his name and his eye, and lastly, the narrator had no description of his own besides the madness he claimed he did not possess. Poe’s indirect descriptive technique offered his audience the freedom of imagining who the next character would be in each pause of a comma. Also allowing the narrator to describe the characters gave the story its core tone a nervous mood. In a nutshell, something this story simply could be told without is its characters and characterization to make them come to