In the perplexing tales of "The Tell-Tale Heart," "A Rose for Emily," and "My Last Duchess," narrators provide in-depth descriptions of the characters and their surroundings. The central theme of these tales emerges frighteningly alive at the beginning of the stories, but still manages to produce a dramatic ending in each tale. In each of these three first-person narratives, the narrator's motivation for telling the story influences the believability of the story, which makes the narrator's point of view, believability, and motivations surreal to the reader. In the heart-pounding story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator leaves no time to get to know the two characters but begins the story by planning the death of the old man's eye. The narrator's first-person point of view is that he is not mad with an illness, but that his illness was a gift. The narrator believes that his illness is causing heaven and hell to call upon him, showing that he is unstable at the beginning of this tale (Poe 37). The narrator's first-person point of view throughout this tale is extremely unhealthy and strange. Being told from the point of view of the self leaves out some minor and significant details. The narrator never discusses how the relationship between him and the old man has evolved, which is usually something the narrator would like to know. Without knowing specific details about the characters in the story, the narrator wonders whether the narrator is the old man's friend, roommate, or caregiver. What the narrator knows is that the old man's eye is repulsive and evil, but the narrator claims to love the old man (37). The narrator proclaims that the old man never wronged him, that “he had never insulted me. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Y...... half of the sheet ......d; she liked whatever she looked at, and her looks went everywhere” (418). He seems casually comfortable when he talks about killing her. All he had to do was give a command and all the smiles stopped, as they went everywhere (419). The three stories make frank references to death, but none of these first-person narratives were similar. In each narrative story, the narrator describes fear and hatred for the person who dies with just the right amount of emotion. Each narrator has been led down the path of murder by his obsessive sanity; even in "A Rose for Emily", where there were multiple narrators, the town seems to lack sanity. All narrators were extremely participatory in these tales, so the stories seem to jump out at the reader with high credibility and motivated narration.