The narrator’s tone of voice is ominous, specifically when words reoccur four or five times “I felt that I must scream or die! –And now—again! --Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!” (Poe 306). This exacerbates what the narrator is stating, and it circulates angst …show more content…
The narrator knows this because he is frightened by the man’s mysterious eye Whenever is fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees – very gradually – I made up mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. (Poe 303) As a reader, I know that the narrator is thinking about killing his roommate, the old man. Readers know this because he talks about how “One of his eyes resembles that of a vulture” (Poe 303). A vulture that frightens him so much he decides to end the old man’s life. The Old man has no idea that he will die soon, because his roommate, the narrator is exceptionally cordial to him. The narrator thinks that he can hear the old man’s beating heart, which ends up being his guiltiness. Once the police come to his door he is not considered or worried, at first. As the police officers enter his house they continue to ask him many questions, this weighs on his self-conscious, the noise of the old man’s heart. The old man can hear a noise and the darkness that startles him. As he catapults up in bed, he looks around, while shouting out “who’s there.” The narrator is at the door and can hear him sitting up and bed. He makes no move as he can feel the fear of the old man, he is very careful to not move a muscle. The narrator starts to freak out and go mad. He does this because the eye is gawking him. He wants the old man to die, so he does not have to catch as little as a glimpse of his sinister like eye. The narrator hears a knock at his street door, he answers, with no cause for concern and “ There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police” (Poe 305-306). They told him one of his neighbors heard a shriek coming from his apartment and there was suspicion of foul