Conflict In The Tell Tale Heart

“True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but will you say that I am mad?”(page 81). The author, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote an American Gothic story titled The Tell-Tale Heart, which took place in an old man’s house in the 19th century. In the story, the main character, the narrator, wanted the old man’s “vulture eye” gone, so he killed the old man. But, the police came so he confessed to his crime. The theme of this story is that guilt is more powerful than your lies, and you can't cover up what you have done. So, the story’s conflict, setting, and character help to prove and lead to the theme.
First, The Tell-Tale Heart’s conflict clearly proves that the theme is correct. The conflict in this story is that the narrator

kills the old man because he doesn't like his eye. The narrator said, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult,” (page 81). He loved the old man, but he had to kill him because of his “vulture eye”. This helps to prove the theme because after he kills the old man, he will feel guilty because he had loved the old man. Another quote from the text is, “but, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound,” (page 83). After the narrator pulls the bed over the old man, he thinks that he is dead but still hears the heart beating. It is not really still beating, but it is the narrator’s conscience and he feels guilty, so he thinks he hears the heart. So, this clearly proves that the conflict is linked to the theme of guilt.
Next, the setting of The Tell-Tale Heart helps