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Edgar Allan Poe’s use of character in his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart� has left me wondering. The reason it left me wondering is because of the way the character acts. The character changes throughout the whole short story.
The meaning of “character� is an imagined person in a fictional story. The author then invests the character with moral and emotional qualities. The importance of the character is determined by what he or she does. The main character as well as the minor characters are not identified by names. This particular short story is written in the past tense. The nameless character basically narrates the events that have already occurred.
There are many characters in this short story. There is the old man with the blue eye with the film over it, the caretaker, and the three police officers. The main character referres to his eye “that of a vulture� (par.1). The caretaker is the main character who commits the murder of the old man, and everyone else......

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