What do we know about the old man in the story? What motivates thenarrator to kill him?
What will be an ideal response?
- What little we know about him is given in the second paragraph. He is apparently kind and pleasant in nature, and he possesses some wealth. The narrator himself disavows any basis for hostility toward the old man or any desire for his gold. What motivates him is his obsession with the old man’s dull, film-covered eye, and the urge “to rid myself of the eye forever.” In a larger context, we might note that father and son relationships in Poe’s stories are virtually never good. Sons want to kill fathers and fathers want to kill sons, either explicitly or implicitly. Poe felt himself to be a victimized son, first of David Poe, who abandoned him, his mother, and his sister; and later of John Allan, his oppressive foster father. Biographical information works well in understanding relationships among characters in Poe’s stories.
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What will be an ideal response?
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