![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins with the narrator admitting that he is a "very dreadfully nervous" type. And as noted in the introduction to this section, this story shows the narrator's attempt to rationalize his irrational behavior. In a sense, the narrator is worse than a beast only a human being could so completely terrorize his victim before finally killing it, as, for example, the narrator deliberately terrorizes the old man before killing him. ![]() The story gains its intensity by the manner in which it portrays how the narrator stalks his victim - as though he were a beast of prey yet, at the same time, elevated by human intelligence to a higher level of human endeavor, Poe's "murderer" is created into a type of grotesque anomaly. Even though this is one of Poe's shortest stories, it is nevertheless a profound and, at times, ambiguous investigation of a man's paranoia. ![]()
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