Edgar Allen Poe explored three different themes: his own life, the nameless narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and literary criticism in “The Tell-Tale Heart” detector". Tell-tale heart. The Tell-Tale Heart is a story, although unrevealed, about father-son incest (Kachur). Throughout the story, the old man was the “eye,” or “the eye of the vulture,” as the narrator calls it. The “eye” is what unnerved the narrator, and was the main reason that drove him to kill the man (Madi and Shadi). At the beginning of the story, the narrator said, “I loved the old man. He had never done me wrong. He had never insulted me. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, this was it! One of its eyes resembled that of a vulture: a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Every time it fell on me, my blood ran cold; and so little by little – very gradually – I determined to take the life of the old man, and thus to rid myself of the eye forever” (Poe). It could also be a sign of the incest implied in the story. What that passage says is that the narrator loved the old man, but a small part of him always made him nervous. His eye, which he said resembled that of a vulture, always kept him tense and frightened him. It was then that he decided to take the man's (Poe) life. Throughout the story, you would believe that the narrator is mad or mad. A passage The narrator thought to himself, “Here's the thing. You think I'm crazy. Crazy people know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded, with what caution, with what foresight, with what dissimulation I set to work! I was never so kind to the old man as I was during the whole week before I killed him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the lock 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+. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. January 15, 2014.Chua, John. "An Overview of 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' ." Gale Online Encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Literary resources from Gale. Web. January 15, 2014.Stedman, Edmund Clarence. "Edgar Allan Poe." Scribner's Monthly 20 (May-October 1880): 107-124. Rpt. in Criticism of 19th Century Literature. Ed. Jay Parini and Janet Mullane Vol. 16. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. Literary resources from Gale Web. January 15, 2014 Storytellers." College English 25.3 (December 1963): 177-181. Rpt. in Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson and Marie Lazzari. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resources from Gale Web. 15 Jan. 2014.