The Tell-Tale Heart, El Corazón Delator: A Dual Language Book (English and Spanish Edition) characters

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The unnamed first-person speaker, who insists on being sane while describing an extreme sensitivity to sound and a growing fixation on an old man's pale eye. Precise, secretive, and intensely eager to prove the cleverness of the plan, the narrator addresses an unseen listener after the crime.

Appears from the start

A harmless older man who lives with the narrator and is treated with affection in ordinary circumstances. One of his eyes is clouded and pale, and the narrator's irrational horror of that eye becomes the sole stated motive for killing him.

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Three officers who arrive after a neighbor reports hearing a cry during the night. They search the house, accept the narrator's calm explanations, and sit talking in the room where the body has been concealed.