The Tell-Tale Heart characters

Narrator

This person is a wreck. Everyone who reads can’t feel sorry for him even after we understood that he’s going to kill the old man simply to feel free of the power of his eye. He’s always nervous, paranoid, worried and scared. Even more, he is physically and mentally ill (we see...

Old man

Even stranger and more mysterious than a narrator. Partly this is because we get acquainted with this character only from the narrator’s strange and spoiled perspective. He has a lot of money, which are showed by the narrator to police. And the strangest thing is about his blue eye that...

Policemen

There were three of them. And to be honest, they don’t have influential characteristics. Yes, anyway, they play a role in the narrator’s story because without them nothing will happen, no culmination will happen in the story. They are conscientious and responsible. They didn’t...