The storyteller describes how he murdered the old man he lived with because he had an eye like a vulture. He insists that he is perfectly healthy, only suffers from a nervous disease that amplifies his senses.
In the story, the characters are the old man and the man who is narrating the tale. It is narrated in first person then, having a single multifaceted character, which is the man. Nothing much is known about the old man, but the man (narrator) is supposed to be his nurse. He does not give much description about the old man, only about his eye, which is the object of his focus. The narrator of this tale is very peculiar; It has no name and shows signs of insanity throughout the tale as it seeks to narrate what happens, and quite striking is the frequency with which it addresses the reader in the midst of its narrative. The facts are narrated with him telling of the present something that happened in the past. It is interesting to note how the narrator's madness and distress grows throughout the tale as he talks to the reader, as stated earlier.
In the original text all elements will be unique and original, in the adaptation may or may not have alteration accordingly. There are several possibilities of being totally equal elements, and various possibilities of the elements being very different. But in any case the adaptation will have the base of the original text and hence will come the similarities that the two may contain throughout the story in specific
