Edgar Allen Poe is very well known for several profound short stories. The Tell Tale heart is known all over the world. The story The Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe Shows the reader the inner complexity behind the unnamed main character who, in this particular story, is also the reader's narrator. Poe plays a character whose almost every sensory sense used in the story is reminiscent of the crime he committed. The conflict within the narrator is extremely noticeable at the beginning of this story. Due to obvious clues and statements, Poe indicates that the Narrator's metallic state is indeed madness. The madness begins to escalate because of the narrator's obsession with the old man's eye which causes him to lose self-control, turn to violence, and commit murder. Throughout this essay, I intend to discuss how Edgar Allen Poe uses characterization, point of view, and setting to reveal the truth and inner selves of the characters in Tell Tale Heart. Setting: Readers do not know where exactly the narrator is while the story unfolds. to be informed of the old man's murder. The Tell Tale Heart is told in a first-person narrative. Therefore, there are several different settings in this story, for example there is a physical setting which is the location in which the action took place and the unknown location in which the narrator actually tells the story. The story begins with the narrator trying to reclaim his sanity from the reader. However, the physical setting of Tell Tale Heart begins in an old, dark house because the shutters were tightly closed, for fear of thieves (CITE). Most of this story takes place at midnight for seven long days (SITE). However, perhaps the most important setting is not a physical location... middle of paper ...... the first-person perspective allows the reader to feel a connection with the narrator, as if he really knew the narrator. This helps us (the readers) understand the narrator's motivations. This allows the reader, for example, to put themselves in the narrator's place and ask themselves if he would have committed this crime? If an eye haunts you at all times, even in your dreams, causing you to have this uncontrollable obsession every night and day to the point that you can no longer function and you don't see a man, you only see an eye that must disappear. Your obsession is so powerful that you begin to hear voices from the heights of heaven and the depths of hell. Will we then find empathy for the narrator and even begin to think that the murder may be justified. Without the use of this point of view, this story would likely not contain as much clarity and suspense as it does..