Edgar Allen Poe explored three different themes: his own life, the anonymous narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the literary criticism of "The Tell-Tale Heart. Telltale heart. The Tell-Tale Heart is a story, although unrevealed, about father-son (Kachur) incest. Throughout the story, the old man was "the eye", or "the vulture's eye", as the narrator calls it. The “eye” is what kept the narrator disturbed and was the main reason for him to kill the man (Madi and Shadi). At the beginning of the story, the narrator says, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never insulted me. For his gold, I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, that was it! One of its eyes looked like a vulture's: a pale blue eye, covered with film. Every time it fell on me, my blood ran cold; and so, little by little – very gradually – I made up my mind to take the old man's life and thus rid myself of my eye forever” (Poe). This could also be a sign of the incest involved in the story. What this passage is saying is that the narrator loved the old man, but a small part of him still irritated him. Its eye, which he thought resembled that of a vulture, always kept him in suspense and frightened him. It was then that he decided to take the man's life (Poe). Throughout the story, one might believe that the narrator is crazy, or crazy. A passage The narrator thought: “That’s the point. You think I'm crazy. Fools don't know anything. But you should have seen me. You should have seen with what wisdom I proceeded, with what prudence, with what forethought, with what dissimulation I set to work! I was never so nice to the old man as I was during the whole week before my murder. And every night, around midnight, I turned the latch on his door and opened it...... middle of paper ...... Ray That Fell upon the Vulture Eye': systemic grammar and its use in Edgar A. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Poe. » Studies in Literature and Language 6.3 (2013): 28+. Gale Literary Resources. Web. January 15, 2014. Chua, John. “An Overview of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Gale Online Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Gale Literary Resources. Web. January 15, 2014. Stedman, Edmund Clarence. “Edgar Allan Poe.” Scribner's Monthly 20 ( May-October 1880): 107-124. In 19th Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Jay Parini and Janet Mullane Vol. 16. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. Gale Web Literary Resources. College English 25.3 (December 1963): 177-181. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson and Marie Lazzari. Flight. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Gale Literary Resources. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.