As one strives to achieve his or her own personal goals, setbacks are inevitable. The person may have a strong ambition to accomplish these goals, sometimes where normal rules and right and wrong rarely apply. With this in mind, drastic measure's are taken in Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," where a man is haunted by an elderly man's "vulture eye". The man's main objective is to get rid of the eye that …showed first 75 words of 813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 813 total…saying that he did indeed kill the old man. So the madman rids himself of the old man's eye, he will no longer be haunted, but maybe he could still be haunted because if he was caught by the Police, he may stay in jail for the rest of his life, and the reminder of why he is in jail or a mental asylum will always be the old man and his pale blue eye.