This selection is very interesting. The first sentence really captures the reader's attention and the rest of the selection is based around it.
"True!-nervous-very,very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
This stops the reader in their tracks to begin with. Why is the character nervous? And why will we call him mad?
I think the character is, of course, mad. They eye of the old man brought out strong emotions in the character that it heightened his senses. It's unreal how the character takes up a whole night nervously and carefully putting his head in the door to the old man's room first, and then fixating the lantern on his eye. Although the character is quite nervous the reader will find he gets more confident leading up to the old man's death.
In fact, the character gets so confident he invited the police into the old man's room where his dead body parts lay. I think the character did this to show power and the eye did not control him. In the end he did not escape his struggles the eye has caused him. Maybe he went mad from the guilt.
I thought this piece was rather depressing, but I found myself wanting more of the story when I was done reading it. Poe can really capture the reader by using amazing descriptive details.
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