Short (and anything but sweet) "Tell-Tale" is an excellent example of Poe's theory of writing.īut that's not why "Tell-Tale Heart" is crazy-famous. Poe believed that a perfect story should be readable in one sitting, that it should be a tightly controlled, highly compressed narrative that hit on topics to which everybody can relate. It's hard to overestimate how important this story is in the American canon.or how much of a literary rockstar Edgar Allan Poe was. The only reason for the murder? The old man had a mildly creepy eye. "Tell-Tale" is about the murder of an old man. Yup: " The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe may have been first published in January 1843, but it reads like an especially gruesome episode of Law and Order. and then he proceeds to tell you a tale full of stalking, sneaking around in the dark, a murder most foul, a police interrogation, and a heart that beats even when the body it was housed within has been dismembered. An unnamed man starts taking, telling you he's got a case of the nerves, sure-but he's not nuts.
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