SOURCE: "The Accomplice in 'The Tell-Tale Heart,'" Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall, 1985, pp. 471-75.
In the essay that follows, Witherington contests the apparently self-evident diagnosis of madness often applied to the narrator of the short story by taking into account Poe's more subtle engagement of the reader's assumptions and expectations.
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