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If this story were true, the man would be diagnosed the psychopath. In the story, the man, I think he is the narrator himself, always imagines there is a something makes him nervous, but he doesn’t know what it is. “Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” “Object there was none. Passion there was none.” (36) Later, he notices that the something is the vulture eye that comes from the old man who lives with him. In fact, there is no any vulture eye disturbing him and nothing any old man living with him. Everything is his imagination and hallucination. It obviously shows that he has paranoia. However, he never realizes he is mad. He thinks he is very wise because he can figure out what disturb him in his life and find out a method to rid himself of the eye forever. “Would a madman have been so wise as this?” (36) In the story, the narrator always emphasizes he is not mad, but he is betrayed by his behavior. In the medical point, this is called psychopath. I have taken one psychological class before, my teacher told me most patients who had psychosis always imagine there was someone or something else always around them and disturbing