Which of the following excerpts from the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe best demonstrates the unreliability of the narrator? • you should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! • I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearten! And observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story. • and then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shine out, and then thrust in my head. • oh you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly-very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old mans sleep.

Question

English

Noah Carpenter

3 July, 16:39

Which of the following excerpts from the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe best demonstrates the unreliability of the narrator? • you should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! • I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearten! And observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story. • and then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shine out, and then thrust in my head. • oh you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly-very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old mans sleep.

+1

Answers (1)

Know the Answer?

Sebastian Thomas · Answer 1

The excerpt in the short story "The tell-tale heart" by Edgar Allan Poe that best demonstrates the unreliability of the narrator is in the second bullet. Unreliability means that you are not sure of what you heard or see. Since in the second bullet, he used the word I heard, this means that it didn’t came from accurate sources.