Journal 71: Hints and Foreshadowing

One of the first sentences describes ",but why will you say I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses" This gives us a clue that he is not in his right mind. He also described "It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening". This sentence describes that it took him an hour to look inside the room. He a certainly insane, he also said "but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work." This states that because of the old man's eye was closed he would not finish his work. All of these three sentences shows and prove he is truly  insane. This sentence shows how he was obsessed with the old man's eye "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture---a pale blue eye, with a film over it.Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold;" The over all feeling of this story was mostly obsession. He killed the old man for no reason, only for his eye. He could have just stayed away from him. There was allot of things he could have done besides that. It was also greed, greed for the eye. This story was also unhappy and mad at the same time.