Madman Vs Misfit

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The mind is a terrible thing to waste. The Misfit and the Madman both lost theirs when they decided to kill someone. In the story “Tell-Tale Heart”, the Madman is basically describing his crime the first half of the story, and when the police came he went crazy from hearing the old man's heartbeat. In the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the Misfit supposedly killed his father which landed him in the penitentiary, but he felt as he did not do anything to deserve to be in prison. In both stories the Misfit and the Madman both seemed to be disconnected from reality. As a result of the Misfit being disconnected from reality he knows he is not a good man, but feels as if there are people worse than him. He is constantly questioning the meaning

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