PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The narrator’s reaction to the old man is strange-the narrator is obsessed with the old man’s eye. The idea that enters the narrator’s brain is “to take the life of the old man and thus rid myself of the eye forever."

Detailed explanation-2: -As he waits, the heartbeat which he heard excited him to uncontrollable terror, for the heart seemed to be “beating . . . louder [and] louder.” The narrator was suddenly aware that the old man’s heartbeat was so loud that the neighbors might hear it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Why does the sound of the old man’ groan in the middle of the night sound familiar to the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart"? In “The Tell-Tale Heart, ‘’ how do the narrator’s feelings contrast with the old man’s? The narrator feels fury toward the old man, & the old man feels fear.