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The whole story is based around the narrator murdering his father. the narrator wanted to kill the old man because he had an evil eye like a vulture. He had no problem with his father, but could not stand the eye. After many nights of planning, the narrator killed the old man, dismembered him, and hid him under the floorboards. He did not feel remorse for his father, only the short relief that "His eye would trouble me no more".

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The victim of the murder was beyond frightened, knowing that someone or something was with him in the dark. The mind creates horrific scenarios when you can't use your sight to confirm or deny them. As a result, "his fears had been ever since growing upon him" while he sits helplessly in the pitch black. When he hears the sounds of the narrator, he can't help a "groan of mortal terror".

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Poe uses descriptive language to convey an eerie mood. For example, the story took place mainly at the dead of night, where rooms were "as black as pitch with thick darkness". Additionally, Poe made the mood even more intense when the old man woke up. He described Death as a figure with a black shadow, stalking the old man and surrounding him. This language puts the reader on edge as they know frightening events are coming.

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An unnamed narrator is a paranoid man in total denial of his madness. He believed his father "had the eye of a vulture"; the eye completely separate from the old man. The evil eye had supposedly vexed him and as a result, he must kill his father. After the murder, the narrator thought he kept hearing the dead man's heartbeat. This repetitive sound drove him even madder causing him to cry and scream hoping it would stop.

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Even though the narrator has gone mad, he still feels guilty about the murder. While the narrator and officers were talking in the bedroom, the narrator began hearing a heartbeat. He believed it was his father, haunting him for what he did. However, the sound was his own panicking. The guilt and anxiety kept building until he felt that he "must scream or die!". Eventually, he couldn't take it anymore, confessing to the murder and leading them to the body.