Poe's Use Of Indirect Characterization

Poe creates the ominous character of an unnamed narrator through indirect characterization. Using the components of the narrator's thoughts, the cops reluctancy to the narrator being a murderer, consequently leading to the narrator's fall into insanity, Poe illustrates a story about guilt and reveals that when you get away with something you may not always feel good about it. The character has no physical description, but his mind tells another story.
The narrator started off with him telling himself to act calm ,believing he can totally get away with it, giving him a mellow attitude “I went down to open it with a light heart,-for what had I now to fear?” He is given this cocky attitude throughout the whole passage until the point that he

started to hear things, “I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they and still they chattered,” his fall into insanity is the part of the story that reflects the theme of the story. The guilt eating away at the man is the turning point in the story which leads into the theme of the story.
This piece was a look into the mind of a killer and is very interesting with mass amounts of indirect characterization like the movie “Guardians of the Galaxy.” This book also featured a group of criminals, but the only difference was that they were able to realize that they could change to heroes and helped in the end. This was “The Tale-Tell-Heart” with the characterization of the narrator.