View The Mad Man From The Tell Tale Heart Gif. How, then, am i *mad*? What is the connotative meaning of the underlined word?

The Tell-Tale Heart Vocabulary from cdn.thinglink.me

I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first if still you think me mad, you will think so no longer when i describe the wise precautions i took for the concealment of the body. What is the connotative meaning of the underlined word? A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.

Nervous, pretty, pretty dreadfully edgy i had been and am;

—nervous —very, very dreadfully nervous i had been and am; All of the elements of the gothic novel are here: He keeps insisting that he's not crazy, which makes him seem moreso. By the end of the story, the narrator confesses to the police of his crime due to strange sounds he hears that he believes is the heart of the murdered old man from under the floorboards.