"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered
my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. "
This line implicates to the reader that the character in this story is going to have to solve his problem to stop thinking about this one idea in particular. I chose this line to analyze because of the irony this line brings to the story. This line also tells the reader how a conceived idea can make a person act irrationally. I also think that this line is important because the character doesn't know how his thoughts led up to this idea. I think the reason why this idea haunted this person is because the eye of the old man was a symbol for the all seeing eye. In reality it was just a regular eye, though, the character didn't perceive the eye this way. In his world this eye was that of a vulture, making the all seeing cynical.
The idea of an all seeing eye bothered the main character, and as a result he had to destroy it. But destroying this old mans eye came with a price. This old man from what I understood from the story was a person just like anyone else, who had a soul. The soul in this story is represented as the heart of the old man. I think that this story is a metaphor for the connection of a persons soul and some type of all seeing eye. In this story the mans eye represented something bigger than himself, however he still has a soul. We all have souls and each persons soul is connected to a higher power. Thats why when the old man was killed his soul still lived on and it haunted the main character to the point of breaking down in front of the police. A persons soul can not be silenced, nor can the all seeing eye.
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