Through the first person narrator, Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" illustrates how man's imagination is capable of being so vivid that it profoundly affects people's lives. The manifestation of the narrator's imagination unconsciously plants seeds in his mind, and those seeds grow into an unimaginable situation for which there is no room for reason and which culminates in murder. The fixation on the old mans vulture-like eye forces the narrator to concoct a plan to eliminate the old man. The narrator confesses the sole reason for killing the old man is his eye. "Whenever it fell upon me,...
and becomes more overwhelming than the first. In playing mind games with himself ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ seeing how far he can push himself to triumph over his own insanity ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ the narrator slips further into a fantasy world. His overwhelming confidence in killing the man ultimately turns into overriding guilt even as he justifies in his mind the savage killing, chopping up of the body, and placing it under the floorboards. The narrator's imagination creates his need and plan to destroy the eye, but it creates the need to save himself from the heartbeat that drives him over the edge.