Read the passage from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.
TRUE!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am
mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them. Above all was the sense of
hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I
mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
What does Poe imply about his narrator?
O His sense of hearing is heightened.
O He is nervous.
O He is mentally unstable.
O He is a good writer.