Question

In "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, which object symbolizes the waiting period before the anticipated end?



1. the ticking clock



2. the beating heart



3. the evil eye



4. the old man's bed



5. the lantern

Answer 1

The beating heart was the end cause he had put in under his chair in the floor cuase he chopped up the body and hid it then police came and he got nervouse and said i hear the heart he thought the man was still alive then confessed and showed the police wher the body was and it washis heart the whole time 

Answer 2

The correct answer is 2. The beating heart

Explanation:

The short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe is about a murder committed by the main character and narrator who is trying to prove his mental sanity by describing how he committed the crime. During this short story, the narrator describes how the idea of killing an old man appeared and developed as this man had a "vulture-eye", due to this the narrator carefully plans a perfect crime in which no one would discover what happened. However, after killing the old man and dismembering and hiding his body, he starts listening to a thumping sound the narrator believes is the old man beating heart. As a result of this disruptive sound the narrator can only hear, he ends admitting the murder of the old man. This means it is the sound of the beating heart and the desperation state shown by the narrator the one that tells the reader he is going to finally confess the crime. Thus, in "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe the beating of the heart becomes the object or sound that symbolizes a waiting period that begins when the man hides the body and ends when he confesses the crime which the reader already anticipates.