Summary of Tell-Tale Heart

Tell-Tale Heart is a story talks about a man that doesn't think he is crazy, he thinks that he is just nervous. From the actions and speeches, we can infer that he is actually a crazy person. In the story, the main character wants to kill an old man, not because the old man has done something bad to him, it is just his eyes has made him uncomfortable. The man wants to kill an old man just because of his eyes! Doesn't that sounds crazy? The man has been observing the old man for 7 days. Finally, on the eight day, the man was hidden right next to the old man's bed. The old man found out that there was something wrong about his room, he felt like someone was in his room, and prepare to do something bad to him. As the old man's heart beats get louder and louder, the narrator is getting more and more nervous. Finally, the narrator killed the old man by the bed. Eventually, the police came to the house for some investigation. The narrator first stays calm, but later he heard the heart beats (his own), he became nervous. He thought that the polices have heard the heart beat, and they were just pretending that they didn't hear anything. The narrator couldn't take that any more, he confessed his crime.