The narrator endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity,
while describing a murder he committed.
The narrator insists he is sane but suffering from a disease which
causes over-acuteness of the senses. An old man with whom he lives
has a clouded, pale, blue vulture-like eye which so distresses that the
narrator plots to murder the old man, though the narrator states
that he loves the old man, and hates only the eye. The narrator insists
that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he
cannot possibly be insane.
Printing History
Written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
James Russell Lowell
The Pioneer
January 1843
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