this story is told from the perspective of the killer. He decides to kill the old man because he hates his eye and throughout the entire tale, he tries to defend the fact that he is not a madman because of the amount of cunning and thought he put into what he was doing. one night when he is opening the door to watch him he makes too much noise and the old man wakes up and after and hour-long standoff, the old mans heart starts beating faster and loud enough for the killer to hear it while he stand in the doorway, Afraid that the neighbors might hear it as well, he decided now is the time to kill the old man. After killing and hiding the body of the old man, the police come because of a report of a disturbance the night before and as they are there searching, the killer starts to hear the sound of the old mans heart again and it keep getting louder and louder until he can't take it anymore and confesses his crime.
Having already read it before, it was nowhere near as suprising as it was then, but it was still kind of a shock. I think it shows that even though you may have committed the perfect crime, the guilt of what you did will catch up to you eventually. also, I find it kind of funny that throughout the entire story the killer is trying to convince us that he is not mad, but in the end he is the only one who hears the sound of the beating heart of a dead man.
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