Tall Tale Heart
... Edgar Allan Poes, The Tell Tale Heart, is a surreal story, which emphasizes human passion, mania, and sanity, through the ingenious use of dramatic irony. Poes, The Tell Tale Heart explains the story of a man drove to insanity by his obsession over an eye. ... The young man begins to hear the beating of a heart, the old mans heart. ... "Although there are ostensibly two characters in "The Tell Tale Heart" the story is really about one character psychically split in half"(May). ... The two characters being one would also explain the heart beat the young man hears. What he seems to recognize as the old mans heart-beat is really his own heart betraying him.