In "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator explains how he is not crazy, how cautious he is in planning a murder. A person can however argue with the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart", who is truly crazy. The anxiety that the narrator experiences throughout the story drives him crazy, it is also the guilt that brought more anxiety to the narrator at the end of the story. The narrator constantly talks about how he is not crazy; him constantly as a reader why should they think he's crazy. "TRUE! -nervous-very, very, terribly nervous. I had been and still am; but why would you say I'm crazy?" (Poe 884) narrator does not believe that he is a mad man, much less that he has mental problems. In “Overview: 'The Tell-Tale Heart'” the author states “It immediately suggests the mental instability that the narrator will continue to experience. deny for the rest of the story. He insists that carefully and stealthily planning the way he killed the old man and dismembered and hid the corpse was a clever achievement for a mad man” (Howes). history is really crazy. Although a person who has a mental problem (e.g. “crazy”) may not have a conscience strong enough to feel guilty, the reason is both guilt and psychosis in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” ” The narrator had no human reason to kill a loved one, the guilt when the narrator kills the old man made his anxiety grow when the narrator planned the murder “Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator believes that an illness has enhanced his senses and that his senses sharpened helped him plan the murder of the old man he loves: “Illness had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled” (Poe 884). The narrator states that...... half of the paper......r. That the narrator was really crazy, he killed a friend, a loved one by one eye. The eye that haunts him day and night, the eye that when it falls on the narrators alone makes their blood run cold, drives the narrator mad. The narrator has difficulty wanting to kill the old man while he sleeps. After the murder, guilt grows within the narrator and anxiety increases to the point that he confesses the truth of the murder to the police sitting in the same room as him. Works Cited Overview: “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Characters of 19th-century literature. Ed. Kelly King Howes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. Word count: 934. From the Literature Resource Center. An overview of "The Tell-Tale Heart". John Chua.Gale Online Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale. Word Count: 1593. From Literature Resource Center.Poe, Edgar Allan. The telltale heart. Lisa Moore. 2004. Print.