In "The Tell-Tale Heart," we can infer that the narrator confessed because...

Question

• the police already knew.
he felt guilty.
he saw blood on the floor.
• the body smelled.

Answer 1

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," we can infer that the narrator confessed because he felt guilty. Throughout the story, the narrator's guilt over the murder manifests as an overwhelming auditory hallucination of the beating heart, ultimately leading him to confess to the crime.