The Tell Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

The narrative in terms of conflict in the story is that the main character/narrator of the story is telling how the old man that he lives with concerns him and makes him crazy with his dull blue evil eye as he puts it and something about the old man and his evil eye drives the narrator to the point of almost being a psycho and a murderer. In the story either the old man or narrator could be the antagonist because of how the story is being told that the old man antagonizes the narrator with his dull blue eye and makes him go crazy but also the narrator could be the antagonist since he is the one plotting the old mans murder and finally committing this murder. But in my opinion I believe the narrator is the antagonist and the old man is the protagonist because even though the old man makes the narrator crazy with his eye I'm guessing it is not the old mans choice to have his eye that way so he isn't doing this to the narrator on purpose that's why I think that. The conflict or struggle that must be resolved is the old mans life it must be taken away to resolve the narrators conflict. The climax of this story could either be the moments before the death of the old man or could be the moments before the narrator gives himself up to the police officers. Since I believe that the antagonist is the narrator then the climax to me would be the moments before the narrator turns himself in because he was so confident that he was getting away with the crime of murder and then it turns out he goes just as crazy as when the old man was alive and reveals he killed the old man and the location of the old man. The conflict of the story is resolved when the narrator turns himself in to the police revealing he killed the old man and that the shriek wasn't really his own. So what I think is that the problem with the narrator that he thought was because of the old man wasn't really because of the old man it was just that the narrator was crazy on his own and his conflict or problem wasn't the old man but himself.