Daniel Macomber Mrs. Huffer ENC 1102-40037 July 10, 2000 The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder of the Narrator in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as “an anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from obsessions and/or compulsions” (Wood 407). In Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator shows signs of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when wakes up at midnight and ritualizes how he is going to kill the …showed first 75 words of 662 total…

…showed last 75 words of 662 total…his conscious thought and gives him great distress. The narrator displays the symptoms of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and he explains them to us in great detail. Bibliography Macomber 4 Works Cited Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed New York: Longman, 1999. 33-37. Wood, Samuel E. and Ellen Green. The Essential World of Psycology. MA A Pearson Education Company, 2000. Hoffman