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listen

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says he's not crazy, but proceeds to say "heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.". this sounds like something no normal person can " healthily" which again calls attention to the fact that maybe he isn't so mentally healthy.this is told from the first person point of view. Our narrator is going to kill an old man he "loves" because the man has cataracts and his eye look like vulture's eyes.our narrator is proving himself to be crazy.

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narrator tells us he has already killed the old man and then starts talking about the week leading up to he murder

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1800s but the "now" after he has committed murder

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slyly, sly

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to annoy or bother,make angry

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wisdom (wise person)

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narrator spends a week watching the old man sleep at night (at midnight). acts in the morning like he's friend. on the eight night, he wakes up accidentally

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he went into the old mans room and watched him sleep but he woke up so he sat there in the room frozen for over an hour.

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the old man has cataract that brothers the narrator. he apparently trusts the narrator though, because he is nice to him in the day. the old man lives alone, so he gets scared when he hears noises at night. he is vulnerable.

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he sat there waiting for the old man to fall back to sleep then he saw the eye open and he got madder

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the old man's heart beats in terror and the narrator paranoidly thinks a neighbor will hear. he jumps in with a yell, the old man yells, he pulls the old man down and smothers him until his heart is no longer beating. he grins as he does it, and is happy the eye will not bother him anymore

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old timey (archaic) word from before

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the narrator heard the door.he went to open the door and there was the cops at the door he let them in to look around the narrator told them that the old man was not home.

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the narrator becomes more and more agitated because he thinks he hears the old man's heart. he gets louder and louder to try to cover it and thinks the police not hearing it is his own heart beating, he finally screams for them to tear up the floor and find the body - this is the climax of the story to the end at this point.

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someone's thinking or imaging something is them "fancying" it he fancied he heard the heart.

fancy can also mean like somebody in a romantic way.