In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allen Poe practices a mostly unreliable narrative process. With the use of oxymoronic language, the author is able to show how extremely crazy the character is. To begin with, the speaker claims to have received ideas from the holy forces, however no one can get first-hand information from Jesus. With this method he insists that he is perfectly normal. “I have heard everything in the heavens and on the earth. I heard many things in hell. How come I'm crazy then?" (Poe 387). Thus, the narrator remains confident in his sanity, he can only say more to further his own madness. Furthermore, the speaker seems to recapitulate certain words and phrases with shocked fury, rather eluding the logic of his character and giving the reader a difficult but considerable idea of ​​how to read the story. In other words, the speaker's reduced dialogue in these moments of extreme anxiety still gives the reader the growing persistence that he is, certainly, crazy. While he claims to readers that he is not crazy, he continues to use the characteristic language of the crazy person.Next...