TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say
that I am mad? The disease had sharpened
my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.
Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I
heard all things in the heaven and in the
earth. I heard many things in hell. How then
am I mad? Hearken! and observe how
healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole
story.
—“The Tell-Tale Heart,"
Edgar Allan Poe
Based on the passage from "The Tell-Tale Heart,"
what inferences can you make about the narrator?
Check the two best answers.
He seems intelligent and stable.
He seems unwell and uneasy.
He seems calm and composed.
He seems nervous and sensitive.