Analysis of Tell Tale Heart

Throughout the whole story from the beginning the narrator said that he was not crazy and insane, but most likely if a person is really trying to convince somebody that they are not crazy they are actually trying to convince themselves. The narrator says the reason why he felt that he had to kill the old man was because of his evil vulture eye. The eye had a film and was blue causing the narrator to feel like the eye was evil. The narrator again tried to convince us that he was not insane by saying that he spent seven nights carefully watching the old man and each night he did not kill him but on the eighth night he did. If he really was sane I do not think that he would go and kill the old man even waiting seven nights. I would think that only a crazy person would do this and go through all the trouble just to get rid of a evil eye. In the end he says that the heart of the old man is beating. But the old man is dead and he even dissembled the body. If this person was really sane I do not think that he would be able to hear the heartbeat of a dissembled body. I think that hearing the heartbeat was actually a sign of his guilt. The heartbeat could have been his own heart beating and he thought it was the old man's or the heartbeat could even have been his own imagination.