This story uses hypersensitivity as proof of his sanity, not madness.

The author uses the stylistic narrator to tell in a precise manner.



　　The story involves the tension between the narrator’s capacities

for love and hate. Poe’s narrator loves the old man. He is not greedy

for the old man’s wealth, nor vengeful because of any sight. He sees

the eye as completely separate from the man, and as a result, he is

capable of murdering him while maintaining that he loves him. It’s a

contradiction point.



The narrator’s newly heightened sensitivity to sound ultimately

overcomes him, so he confessed to the police that he killed the old

man. In the end, I think, he unwilling or unable to distinguish between

real and imagined sounds.