American Literature / Unit 8 AML 0709 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
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The idea
A narrator insists he is not mad, then explains how the old man's filmed eye drove him to kill and dismember and hide the body under the floor. Convinced he hears the heart still beating, he confesses to the police. The story is the course's model unreliable narrator.
In practice
A confession that begins by denying madness.
Where people slip
His proof of sanity convicts him.
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