The Narrator’s Reliability in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Can we consider the narrator in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” a reliable one?

Explain whether you think the narrator in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” is telling the reader an accurate account of what is really happening as opposed to what he imagines is happening. Often, when we read something, we question whether the source of what we are reading is reliable. The same is true when we read literature. In a sense, then, the reliability of the narrator may be part of the writer’s style.