Tell-Tale Heart Argumentative Essay
The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allen Poe, is a short story that was about a narrator telling their process of the murder of an old man because of his eye, but it never specifically stated what the narrator’s gender was. Maybe it was a female, since there were many clues that support this claim, such as the narrator being a housekeeper for the old man, this could explain why the murder was very clean and why she had access to his home in the first place, and because she was a female, the police officers who came to the house didn’t suspect much. First of all, the narrator could have been a female housekeeper for the old man does make sense. In the story, after the narrator killed and hid the old man’s body, officers came and since the narrator
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After the narrator killed the old man, they hid the body by cutting it up in pieces and hid them under the floorboard, and “there was nothing to wash out-no stain of any kind- no blood spot” because “a tub had caught all” (Poe, 13). This shows that the narrator was probably a professional housekeeper, so they knew how to cleanly cut things up, like meat or food, and how to clean stained objects. The last evidence that points to the narrator being a female was that the officers were suave and polite to the narrator. When the narrator went to get the door after finishing the deed, “three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as the officers of the police” (Poe, 14), came and was “deputed to search the premises” (Poe, 14). This shows that the police officers were probably trying to look good in front of the narrator as she could have been a female, and usually police officers would go easier on females instead of males, thinking that girls are too delicate to do any dirty work. Overall, no one knows for sure what the gender of the narrator could have been in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” but many signs, like the narrator being a housekeeper, the murder being too clean, and the officers going easier on the narrator, lead to the gender being more of a female
After the narrator killed the old man, they hid the body by cutting it up in pieces and hid them under the floorboard, and “there was nothing to wash out-no stain of any kind- no blood spot” because “a tub had caught all” (Poe, 13). This shows that the narrator was probably a professional housekeeper, so they knew how to cleanly cut things up, like meat or food, and how to clean stained objects. The last evidence that points to the narrator being a female was that the officers were suave and polite to the narrator. When the narrator went to get the door after finishing the deed, “three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as the officers of the police” (Poe, 14), came and was “deputed to search the premises” (Poe, 14). This shows that the police officers were probably trying to look good in front of the narrator as she could have been a female, and usually police officers would go easier on females instead of males, thinking that girls are too delicate to do any dirty work. Overall, no one knows for sure what the gender of the narrator could have been in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” but many signs, like the narrator being a housekeeper, the murder being too clean, and the officers going easier on the narrator, lead to the gender being more of a female