The mysterious and eerie story of The Tell Tale Heart was written by famous author Edgar Allan Poe in 1843 At the start of the story the narrator confesses to the reader that he is a very dreadfully nervous type Ironically he claims he enjoyed the old man s presence however his disturbed mind made him madly obsessed with the old man's eye Rather than focusing on the old man s personality he was fixated on the man s frightening eye The thought of the eye became a psychotic obsession in the narrator's tormented mind leading him to taking the old man s life in order to rid himself of the fixation The major portrayed theme of this story describes that guilt drives people insane
