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According to Henry James, characters are only as interesting as their responses to
particular situations. The character s response in the two short stories I have chosen is the
reason I chose them. In Jack London s To Build A Fire and Edgar Allen Poe s The
Tell-Tale Heart the character s reaction to each situation leads the reader to read more to
find out what happens next. It is interesting to read a story and not be able to predict
what the character will do in a given situation because it captures the reader s interest and
spurs them on to read more. Along with the suspense, the character s reaction in each
situation in these two stories determines the outcome of the overall story. The character s
response to each relating situation builds on each other, creating a domino effect.
In the Tell-Tale Heart the main character is a crazed madman, who is also the
narrator of the story. He begins the story by trying to convince the reader he is not mad,
but nervous, very nervous. He tries to prove he is not mad by how clever he plans out the
murder of the old man he lives with. He decides he wants to murder the old man to rid
himself of the old man s pale blue vulture eye because it sends chills up and down his
spine.
You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen
me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded--with what
caution--with what foresight--with what dissimulation I went to work. I
was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed
him (Poe 62).
For eight nights he cleverly snuck into the old man s room with great caution to
not arouse the man. It took him hours to get into the room; he was very patient. Each
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night he would go in he would undo the lantern just enough so that a single ray would fall
on the vulture eye. Every time the vulture eye was closed, thus he could not kill him
because he was not mad at the man, only his vulture eye. After the eighth night of his
carefully entering the old man s room he repeated the same process as in the past seven
nights. This night his vulture eye was opened. He opened the lantern and it made a noise
causing the old man to rouse. He and the old man, both awake, were still for an hour.
I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a
muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still
sitting up in the bed listening;--just as I have done, night after night,
harkening to the death watches in the wall (Poe 63).
He finally could not take the suspense any longer and he leaped upon the old man and
suffocated him with the bed. After he covered his evidence, including the body, under
three floor planks he smiled gaily thinking his deed was complete. Detectives came
investigating a noise heard by the neighbors during the night. He led them through the
house, even to the room he committed the murder in, and bade them to sit on the very
spot. The reader is led to believe that he has gotten away with murder. His acute senses
got the best of him. He still heard the ticking, beating of the old man s heart. He drove
himself to plead guilty to the murder.
The reader is amazed at how cleverly he had planned and schemed to commit the
murder and cover up, but fell apart because of his insanity, which is what drove him to
murder in the beginning. His decision that the problem was the man s eye was the wrong
speculation as he noticed it was over acuteness of his senses. And now have I not told
you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?-- (Poe 63)
In Jack London s To Build A Fire the main characters are a man traveling on
the Yukon trail to meet his friends, who had gone another route, and his dog. The man
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