The Tale- Tell Heart -Edgar Allan Poe

Short story telling can be an art of a genius, if executed impeccably and it cannot be argued that Edgar Allan Poe was indeed a genius when narrating short stories. “The Tell- Tale Heart” written by Edgar Allan Poe in such example of impeccable writing that has infinite metaphors and ironies in- depth it’s swift story telling.

The story describes a story of a night about the committing of a murder and then surprisingly the guilt associated with it which leads to the obvious that form the finale of the story.  What distinguishes the story telling is the style and style here refers to structure of events and the flow that leads to the events. It actually comes as no surprise that Edgar Allan Poe is considered as the inventor of detective fiction in American writing history. It very efficiently comes out in this excellent short story.

At one point in the story it would seem that perhaps the entire events is narrated from the point of view of death itself, but no the writing takes a twist and then through great structure of events the hidden metaphoric and contrary mystery is revealed. First published in 1843, the short story is essentially what story writing is all about.