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The Narrator
The murderer of the old man. Addressing the reader, the narrator offers his tale of precise murder and dismemberment as an argument for his sanity.
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The Old Man
The narrator’s murder victim. The narrator’s obsession with the old man’s one vulture-eye indicates the insanity that the narrator wants to deny.
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The Police Officers
Police officers called to investigate a scream at the narrator’s house overheard by a neighbor. They do not appear to suspect the narrator of any wrongdoing until he confesses, suggesting that the narrator must be hallucinating the sound of the old man’s heart.
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