The primary cause of the narrator's confession to killing the old man is that he hears the old man's heartbeat. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator becomes overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety, which manifests as the sound of the old man's heartbeat, driving him to confess his crime.
but why will you say that i am mad? now this is the point. you fancy me mad. madmen know nothing. but you should have seen me. you should have seen how wisely i proceeded-with what caution with what foresight with what disssimulation i went to work. I went to work. i was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before i killed him and have i not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense If still you think me mad you will think so no longer when i describe the wise precautions i took for the concealment of the body
what causes the narrator to confess to killing the old man?
answers:
The cops smell the dead body
The cops start questioning him more
He hears the old mans hearbeat
He misses the old man
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