“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe 1. On the eighth night, the old man’s eye is open, which enrages the narrator. What makes the narrator finally barge into the room and commit the murder?

2. Reread the definition of a protagonist. How does the protagonist in “The Tell-Tale Heart” differ from a typical protagonist?

3. How do the events just prior to the old man’s death (paragraph. 3) foreshadow the events at the end (paragraph. 4)?