![]() ![]() It is probable that the murderer is a paranoid schizophrenic as there are a number of auditory hallucinations throughout although these could, instead, be supernatural occurrences. ![]() It may be that the old man is their father, or that he or she is a servant to the old man. The narrator recounts the murder of an ‘old man’ who lives in the same house. We do not even know if the murder happened or occurred solely in the narrator’s mind. ![]() Poe is deliberately vague as to whom the narrator is confessing – a lawyer, a judge and jury, a gaoler, a priest on the eve of his execution or a doctor in an insane asylum. The narrator claims to be a murderer and the story takes the form of a sort of confession. Plot: This 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe is told from the point of view of an unreliable narrator – we take the narrator to be a man but some critics state it could be a woman as no gendered pronouns are used. ![]()
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