Character AnalysisTell Tale Heart and Greasy Lake have interesting characters to analyze. Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart has an eerie, dark tone that Poe's literary work is known for. TC Boyle's Greasy Lake begins with hardcore but naive teenagers who want to have fun. However, their naivety and immaturity will land them in a very bad situation.Tell Tale HeartThe setting of the story is just a random house with very few details given. One might imagine it to be an old brownstone covering the city of Baltimore where Edgar Allen Poe lived. The narrator tells us that the old man keeps the shutters tightly closed. The narrator tells us that he was afraid of thieves; this could indicate that this was a high crime neighborhood. The old man's bedroom is the only room mentioned in the story. The setting and tone are made scarier because the appearance of the room is not described. This allows our imaginations to run wild. The room is where the narrator watches the old man sleep and ends up taking his life. The tone of the story is one of terror, sadness and nervousness. The narrator of the story is a sad, paranoid and nervous character. His life doesn't seem to be going very well, because he lives with the old man. The story doesn't explain why the narrator lived there, but if you have a roommate your finances may be frayed. The Tell Tale Heart is a short story full of imagery and symbolism. Let's take the old man's eye for example. The narrator describes it as the eye of a “Vulchers”. This conjures up the image of a vulture circling a dying animal. The narrator is so fixated on this topic that he mentions it three times in the story. The description of the eyes also adds to the terrible tone of the story. The narrative... half the paper... was inflated to regulatory pressure." The fact that the car was usable allowed the three "bad guys" a method of escaping the situation they put themselves in. The characters fully changed when the girls in the Mustang show up at the end of the story The narrator describes the girl having to wave her arms to keep her balance as she obviously wasn't sober he had seen an Al, and after examining the wrecked car he asked, "hey, you guys seem like some pretty bad characters - you got into a fight, huh" Then he proceeded to reach into his pocket, pulling out a handful of glassine-wrapped tablets Then he asked, "hey, do you want to celebrate, do you want to do some of these with me and Sarah"? After the events of the night, the three bad characters from the beginning of the story, just wanted to go home and curl up in the covers.