Interrogating The Narrator

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is designed to guide students through a close examination of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” It includes a series of questions related to the narrator’s thoughts, feelings, and reliability:

1. Students will explore what is bothering the narrator in the first paragraph and what he hopes to achieve by telling his story.
2. They will analyze the narrator’s claimed feelings toward the old man.
3. Students will investigate the problem between the narrator and the old man and why it is a problem.
4. The worksheet prompts students to assess whether the narrator is reliable and to provide reasons for their assessment.

By engaging with these questions, students will enhance their comprehension of the story’s central themes, character dynamics, and the unreliability of the narrator. This exercise fosters critical thinking and literary analysis skills while promoting a deeper understanding of Poe’s narrative style.