PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -His over-sensitivity becomes in this story the ultimate cause of his obsession with the old man’s eye, which in turn causes him to murder the old man. Ironically, the narrator offers as proof of his sanity the calmness with which he can narrate the story.

Detailed explanation-2: -He is extra nice to the old man the week before he kills him-His motivation is to play up his trustworthy nature-he doesn’t want the old man to be suspicious-he wants the old man to completely trust him. How does the narrator kill the old man?

Detailed explanation-3: -Since the narrator is only vexed with the old man’s eye, he doesn’t kill the old man because during the first seven nights, the eye was closed. Since the eye is closed, he had no problem with the old man, nor a reason to kill him.