SOURCE: "Edgar Allan Poe: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'," in Aspects of the Modern Short Story: English and American, University of London, 1924, pp. 32-44.
In the following excerpt, Ward points out that the lack of motive on the part of the narrator is a major flaw in "The Tell-Tale Heart. "
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