Every night, “seven long nights… every night at midnight” he meticulously entered the old man's room while the man slept (Poe 620). He makes it clear that the eye is the object of his obsession when he states: “But I found the eye always closed; and therefore it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man that tormented me, but his evil eye” (Poe 620). Obviously the eye is the center of the narrator's anguish. At the beginning of the passage, the narrator expresses: “Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old one. He had never done me wrong. He had never insulted me. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, this was it!” as motivation for killing the old man (Poe 619). Despite the statements he makes, the narrator's nervousness and obsessive thoughts reveal to the reader that he is indeed mentally unstable. The narrator continues to insist that he is not crazy by explaining how cunningly he proceeds in his attempt to kill the old man. Presents: “You think I'm crazy. Crazy people know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded” (Poe 619), as an argument for his sanity. His argument could be seen as if the murder was premeditated, but according to psychiatrist Dr. Felthous, "Some had deluded themselves