Araby英语短篇小说 故事梗概

Even though the narrator claims that he is clam and not crazy, he absolutely loses his mind and can’t control his behavior. The calmness that he attempts to show in the narration is the best proof of his insanity. we could tell how crazy the feeling of the narrator about the old man by his description of the old man. The narrator loves the old man but he can’t stand the old man’s vulture-like eye. He is so afraid of the eye that he decided to kill the old man. This abnormal decision shows how crazy the narrator is because no one would be so obsessed of an old man but so afraid of his eyes that tried to kill him. Some people may question his craziness since he was cautious and calm when he murdered the old man. However, the calmness was just temporary. He was irrational and went into illusion again when questioned by the police. He is in an extremely unstable mental state and the horrible idea in his mind has driven himself crazy.
The perspective of first person narrator in the article made it possible for anyone to be the listener. Despite it seems to be story that the narrator wrote to everyone, I think it is possible that he just told what happened to himself instead of sharing his story with others. Given that he was totally out of control, he just intended to talk to himself. This might be a way for him to let himself calm down. He tried to recall all the things in order to prove that he was rational.
I think the most horrible part in the story is the conversation the narrator said to himself. Since the crazy narrator attempted to show how calm he is, his rational words and mad behavior are the most obviously comparison. The narrator's emotional instability provides a clear counterargument to his assertions of good judgment.It is impossible for a normal people to behave in such an inconsistent manner.
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The protagonist of the "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic example of Poe's unreliable narrator, a man who cannot be trusted to tell the objective truth of what is occurring. His unreliability becomes immediately evident in the first paragraph of the story, when he insists on his clarity of mind and attributes any signs of madness to his nervousness and oversensitivity, particularly in the area of hearing. However, as soon as he finishes his declaration of sanity, he offers an account that has a series of apparent logical gaps that can only be explained by insanity. In his writings, Poe often sought to capture the state of mind of psychotic characters, and the narrator of this story exhibits leaps of reasoning that more resemble the logic of dreams than they do the thought processes of a normal human being.。