Saturday, June 25, 2011

An Alternative Ending to Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell Tale Heart"


By:  Kristin Cox
          I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!  I felt that I must scream or die!—and now—again---hark!  louder!  louder! LOUDER!  As my feeble, weary soul became more and more and more annoyed by this beating sound, I had to do something.  I began to remove the nails that I had so carefully hammered into the floor only to find that the old man was indeed dead.  However, that eye continued to mysteriously gaze into mine.  At that point, I realized that I was addicted to the sight of the eye.  I actually adored the eye.  It seemed as if the eye could see into my soul.  The eye knew the “true” me.  This beating that I heard was actually my heart longing for the sight of the eye, so I took one last dreadful, but yet pleasing look at it.  I saw myself.  It was me that I had been so obsessed with, but hated at the same time.  The eye saw me for who I really was.

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