The Tell-Tale Heart

To continue with the theme of the last blog I will talk about another story that I quite enjoyed growing up. I mentioned there are very few stories that I was "forced" to read during school that I actually ended up liking a lot. Sleepy Hollow  and the other being The Tell-Tale Heart.  Maybe I like it because it's a very short story but the Psychologist in me really enjoys what Edgar Allan Poe tried to share with his readers with this story. It's basically about the narrator who throughout the story tries to convince the reader that he's not crazy when what he talks about in the story is completely contradictory to that statement and he is in fact very crazy due to his extreme nervousness condition. The part that intrigues me is not that he is trying to lie to us by saying he's a sane man but the fact he actually believes he's not crazy.  Probably one of my favorite lines from the story is when he says " ...observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story" It's odd to me because this tells me by him saying he will tell you what happened "calmly" meaning what happened doesn't bother him in the slightest which to me gives further evidence that he isn't completely sane and I shouldn't trust what he says to be truth.  I don't want to spoil the rest of the plot for those who haven't read it yet  but I genuinely suggest you do so and let me know what you thought!