The narrator introduces himself and wishes to prove his sanity by calmly telling the story of how he murdered the old man because of his pale blue eye that resembled that of a vultures.
The narrator was nicer than he had ever been on the week before he killed the old man. The narrator says that the eye sends shivers down his spine.
The narrator watches tone old man sleep for 7 nights waiting for him to open his eye thus ridding himself of the vulture eye forever.
Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here,here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
on the 8th night the narrator decides to kill the old man he feels powerful but there was a shriek the narrator fears the shriek was heard by a neighbor he dragged the man to the floor and pulled the heavy bed over him until he was dead.
3 policemen knock on his door because the neighbors heard a shriek and there is suspicion of foul play. The narrator thinks he has nothing to fear and invites them in.
The narrator believed the officers knew of the deed. He swung the chair upon which he had been sitting but the noise arose over all and continually increased in his ears he saw them smiling and chatting pleasantly at last his guilt consumed him and he admit the deed.