it shows that the narrator is guilty of what he has done and wants to tell someone but is very nervous of the consequences
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The narrator is the killer. They are the same person.
Some would like to believe that this story epitomizes the contempt that Poe held for his foster father, John Allan, who had died about eight years earlier, but that is purely speculation.
Edgar Allan Poe left pictures of a heart beating rapidly underneth the floor causing the room he was buried in to shake and echo the sound of the beating heart while the police and him were in it.
Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, MA and passed away October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, MD. According to the dates this would have made him 40 years, 8 months, and 18 days old when he died. : )
No, the more he talks about how perfectly he commited the crime, he is making you more and more convinced that this man is far, far, away from anything close to sanity.