TO Mabbot from his book Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe says “Poe's narrator tells a clear and simple story.” Even though TO Mobbot believes Poe's story is boring, he believes it works to help the store achieve its full ethos. TO then goes on to say, “The clarity and simplicity of the story, indeed, seems the means through which the narrator's madness is made transparent.” While he feels it is plain and simple, he also agrees that Poe's simplicity in the narrator helps the story achieve its full impact and goal of allowing the reader to get a glimpse into the narrator's madness. What makes Poe's story gothic according to Nicole Smith is the killing of the old man and the way the narrator hides the body after killing him. The way the narrator goes on to describe the eye as "a pale blue that follows him constantly" is also strange and unnatural. Edgar Allan Poe also briefly includes a supernatural scene. On the first page, second paragraph of the novel, the narrator talks about hearing voices before going to the old man's room: “I heard all things in the heavens and the earth. I felt a lot of things inside