Vulture eye

A  question that has always boggled in my head, whenever reading the implausible,' The Raven', by Edgar Allen Poe was why was he, the main character that is, the narrator AND the killer? In my perspective Poe purposely wanted to be the narrator and the killer. He wanted sympathy from the reader and he didn't want the reader to think he was mad or even delusional for killing the old man just for his "vulture" eye.

  "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?"  This one quote is the very first sentence from the story. He wanted the reader to automatically think and BELEIEVE that he is not crazy.

  The whole point of Poe being the narrator is to get sympathy from the reader. I think without Poe being the narrator, people automatically think that he is mad. If someone else was telling the story, an outside source, we wouldn't know why Poe killed the old man. All the reader would know is that Poe is sneaking into the house, for no reason, killing the man, for no reason, and confessing to the police, for no reason. The reader would have to make a conclusion for all of Poe's actions. We would have to assume that Poe is a mad man. However, with Poe being the narrator, he gives us what's happening in his head, and his motif for killing and stalking. He wants to make the reader understand that he is not just crazy mental.

 From then on in paragraphs one and two he explains why he wanted to kill the old man and he sums it up by confronting the reader (and himself in a way) that he truly isn't screwy. In paragraphs one and two I think Poe knew he was crazy for killing the old man just for his eye because he keeps going on and on and giving descriptive details on WHY he wants him dead like he's trying to trick the reader and even HIMSELF to prove he isn't insane.