Summary of The Tell Tale Heart

(short story by Edgar Allan Poe's)

In this short story there is a old man and the narrator. They lived in the same house.
The old man was wealthy and there was nothing about the old man that the narrator
didn’t like except the blue eye. The narrator conceives of a plan to kill the old man not
because he hates him but because of his blue eye. His plan was to kill the old man at
night when his blue eye was open. Every night when he sneaks up to the old man room
the old is sleeping and his eyes are closed and the narrator cannot see the blue eye. He
continuo to do this for seven nights. On the eight day when he slowly sneaks into the old
man’s room the old man hear a noise and he wakes up. The narrator hides himself and
waits for hours and hours for the old man to fall asleep. When the narrator gets
convinced that the old man is fast a sleep he shines the lantern at him the old man turns
around the light shines directly at his blue eye. The old man awakens but the narrator
kills him by tipping the bed over him.

He hastily chops the body of the old man then conceals the body parts in the loose
floorboard. At that time three police men come because the neighbour’s complained of
hearing a man scream. The narrator shows the police men the old man’s room. He also
gives them a chair to sit. He places his chair on top of floorboard where he hid the old
mans body.

The narrator hears loud heart beats of the old man. He could not hide the hideous crime
that he had done so he admits to the officers that he killed the old man.