The narrator of this story notes that "I pitied him, although I chuckled at heart" after describing a certain feeling. One sound in this story is compared to the sound "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." The narrator of this work tries to perfo
The narrator of this story notes that "I pitied him, although I chuckled at heart" after describing a certain feeling. One sound in this story is compared to the sound "a watch makes when enveloped in cotton." The narrator of this work tries to perform the central action for eight nights, and on the last night he opens a lantern so that a single ray shines into the next room. Later the narrator offers chairs to three policemen, and is continually bothered by his neighbor's blue "vulture eye." For 10 points, identify this short story in which a murderer confesses to killing his old neighbor after hearing the beating of the title object, a work of Edgar Allen Poe.
The narrator of this story notes that "I pitied him, although I chuckled at heart" after describing a certain feeling.
"The Tell-Tale Heart"