Analysis of the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe place where the old man's body was hidden. As the cops talk pleasantly, the man writhes in anguish thinking that the complacency of the cops is just a mockery as the man sits there and hears the dead old man's heartbeat getting louder and louder. and stronger (Guilt in “The Tell-Tale Heart”). As the beat gets louder and louder, the narrator goes mad because of his guilt over killing the old man. So with the beating louder, the man believes the officers can hear it and can no longer hear the beating, the narrator confesses to the crime of killing the old man ("Explanation of: "The Tell-Tale Heart

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