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In lines 151-160, the narrator makes his case to the police and thinks he has convinced them of his innocence. What happens next that leads the narrator to finally confess? Tell what this suggests about his mental state.

Text:I smiled, for what had I to dear? I base the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search-search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into his room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues, while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.

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The man sits on the spot where he knows the dead corpse of the man he killed lies.He hears the heart beat and feels that even though he committed a perfect crime, for himself, he has to confess as he is being annihilated by guilt.The fact that he is proud after what he has done, putting an end to " the "evil eye" and also feels guilty about it shows the man is mad.Moreover, he has confessed himself mad at the beginning of the story.

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What happens next that leads the narrator to finally confess and what that suggests about his mental state are the following:

The narrator, even though having killed the man, believes he can still hear the man's heart beating. That reveals that he is not mentally well, and that he probably has a disturb of some kind.

  • "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • The narrator lives with an old man whom he claims to love, but whom he murders anyway.
  • The narrator also claims to be a perfectly reasonable and sane man.
  • However, throughout the story, he reveals signs of his madness.
  • When the police come to investigate what may have happened in the house, the narrator is able to fool them at first.
  • But he ends up confessing his crime once he begins hearing a loud noise. He believes the noise is the beating heart of the man he killed.

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