Readers get an education when it comes to the role the first-person narrator takes in some of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) the unnamed narrator does not try to convince the reader that he is not guilty, only that he is not crazy. He was justified in killing the old man with the “vulture eye” and hiding the body under the floorboards of his house. Maybe he's trying to save his own skin, but that's not the point. The crime is not in question; it is the narrator's sanity. How can you trust the narrator if you only understand part of the story? This is what makes the journey as a reader more interesting. How to discern the truth? This is what it means to retrace Poe's work. Most of his stories rely on the unreliability of the character telling the story. Is he telling the truth? Is it his truth, is it the current truth or is it a possible truth? Who knows? The only way to know is to read the story, see how the other characters interact, and question everything. Eventually all the facts will come out. It may also create reasonable doubt and it will be up to the reader to discern what happened. The reader will write their own story in their head after witnessing what happened. There are many elements and themes that can be used to analyze how Edgar Allan Poe uses the unreliable narrator. I want to focus on one aspect: love. Tragic love plays an important role in his work, as well as in his poetry. Some of his most famous poems include "Lenore" (1843) and "Annabel Lee" (1849). I have selected three love stories interpreted by the narrator of the story. These are not among Poe's most popular stories, but the ones I feel we should focus on: "Be... in the center of the paper... y - by LADY LIGEIA (579). Now, how true could that be? It was a wishful thinking? A hallucination? Or did it really happen? The point is that it doesn't really matter madness, even if the narrator doesn't seem to think so. Yet through his actions, through his words, readers are able to explore the psyche of this man. What made him like this? it's what it seems so we have to read between the lines. We try to keep an open mind, but we are limited by what we are given by the narrator. That's why his stories have survived the passage of time. Each story provides a lot of open-ended material to interpretation, as well as many different possibilities. It's the joy of being a reader.