Question

Jane is writing a literary analysis essay about the themes in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tale-Tell Heart." Which sentence from the story will best support her argument about the narrator's struggle with deciding what action to take?

Answer 1

Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.

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