A short story I read recently that has an incident or moment of great tension is "The Tell-Tale Heart", written by Edgar Allen Poe. The short story can produce many different “types” of characters. Usually, these characters are faced with situations that give us insight into their true "character." The main character of the story is faced with a fear. He is afraid of the Eye of the Old Man who lives with him. The actions that this character or "the man" - as he is called in the story - takes to end his fear may lead others to believe that he is suffering from some sort of mental illness. The very fact that this man is so repelled by the old man's eye, which he calls "the evil eye," is reason enough to be suspicious of his character. Man has an inner struggle with the thought that "the evil eye" is watching him and the underlying feeling that "the evil eye" will see the real person he has become. This paranoia leads the man to believe that the only way to dispel his fears is to kill the old man. It is said that denial is usually a sign of a problem. If this is true, then the man has the characteristics of a “madman.” In the first paragraph, he asks: “but why do you say I’m crazy!” » This statement can be considered a statement made by someone going through a paranoid episode. He speaks as if he is frantic, especially when he talks about hearing things in heaven and hell. "The illness had sharpened my senses... Especially my hearing. I heard everything in heaven... I heard many things in hell." The “disease” the man speaks of eats away at his conscience. The progression of the story revolves around the actions of the man. He describes "wise" ways... in the middle of paper... his eye and the fact that the man does this at the same time every night shows that he has an obsession based solely on this blind eye who the old man did it. Guilt arises after the murder of the old man when the man begins to hear the old man's heartbeat - which is actually the beat of his own heart, but he fails to recognize it. This is definitely a story that contains an incident or moment of great tension right from the start. From the man speaking openly about killing the old man to the climactic scene where he finally finishes what he started and the end of the story where he admits to killing him. The title "The Tell-Tale Heart" basically sums up the story in four words, meaning a heart that revealed something, but in this case it refers to the heart of the man who revealed the secret of the murder he had clerk..