In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by Poe he demonstrates how certain people react to situations. He wrote this article as if he was inside that particular characters head and said anything and everything that came to mind. This is an example of a stream of conscience based story. The first paragraph of the story talks about how nervous, smart, and mad he is because of what the old man’s eye does to him. He has many different emotions throughout the story, but in the end the main emotion is that he is mad, in the crazy type way. He felt nervous when the eye looked at him. The old man’s eye was “glazed over” and was creepy so it drove the other man crazy. However, I think the man was already crazy. He took hours just to get into the room, and he went in there every single night. Now, who in their right mind would go in and out of the room multiple times just to look at another man’s eye? He even tries to explain why he isn’t mad or crazy. This could mean that he really was and that was his first instinct to explain that he was not insane. Another reason he was not sane is that he was motivated to kill a man because his eye was abnormal. He did not want the old man’s money he just wanted the eye to be gone forever. Yet, when he finally had the guts to kill him he caved in and told the police where the body was when they arrived at the house. He sold himself out instead of being normal and acting casual around the police. No sane person would be stupid enough to give himself away.