The tell tale heart was an exciting short story. The narrator killed an old man all for having a green eye. The narrator was nice to the old man in the day time, but it was night he was spying on the old man watching him sleep. The narrator went crazy and killed the old man for no reason. The narrator got away with murder but he also the grief and the despair of killing him. Then the police came to the narrator's house and he lied to them just to get away with it. So he turned himself in.