The narrator is not mad but he suffers from mental derangement. He speaks like a man who has lost touch with the day to day world. He kills the old man for not any valid reason rather he has a disease – homicide. By the observation of his action, we cannot claim that he is mad rather we may say he is excessively clever man. When he tries to kill the old man, he plays double roles. At night, he tries his best to kill him and in the day he proves that he is his best friend. His behaviour, his precaution, his manner and his logic are very appreciable. A mad person cannot think and argue like the narrator. In brief, we may say there is something abnormal in his mind, on the one hand. And on the other hand he peacefully and cleverly unlatches the door keeping his head inside and tries to raise the beam of light. A mad man cannot know the game of word but the narrator is so clever that he makes the police officers fool by applying his word game.
By the deep psychological study he seems to be a man of high intellect. He does not touch the gold coins of the old man. He claims that he has killed the old man not for the worldly affair but for his panic vulture eye. Generally, a mad man does not think such noble thought. On the other hand, he kills him for very private reason – only for the vulture eye. So, we cannot say he is mad rather he has an obsession of killing.
The narrator is mad: The story is driven not by the narrator’s insistence upon his innocence but by insistence on hissanity. This, however, is self-destructive because in attempting to prove his sanity he fully admits he is guilty of murder. His denial of insanity is based on his systemic actions and precision—a rational explanation for irrational behavior. This rationality, however, is undermined by his lack of motivation (“Object there was none. Passion there was none.”). Despite this, he says the idea of murder, “haunted me day and night”. The story’s final scene, however, is a result of the narrator’s feelings of guilt. His nerves dictate his true nature. Despite his best efforts at defending himself, the narrator’s “over acuteness of the senses,” which help him hear the heart beating in the floorboards, is actually evidence that he is truly mad.
It is also unclear, however, if the narrator actually has very acute senses or if he is merely imagining things. If his condition is believed to be true, what he hears at the end of the story may not be the old man’s heart but death watch beetles. The narrator first admits to hearing death watches in the wall after startling the old man from his sleep. According to superstition, death watches are a sign of impending death.
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