The unnamed narrator is a condemned man attempting to convince the reader that an irresistible impulse, which he calls the Imp of the Perverse, made him commit murder. The narrator, who apparently has an…
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The Victim
The man that the narrator murders at the story’s outset. Aware of the victim’s nightly ritual of reading in bed, the narrator swaps the man’s candle with a poisonous one, knowing that the victim’s claustrophobic…
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