Question

select the correct text in the passage.
which sentence in this excerpt from edgar allan poe’s “the tell - tale heart” reveals why the narrator wants to kill the old man?
now this is the point. you fancy me mad. madmen know nothing. but you should have seen me. you should have seen how wisely i
proceeded—with what caution—with what foresight—with what dissimulation i went to work! i was never kinder to the old man than during the
whole week before i killed him. and every night, about midnight, i turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently! and then, when i had
made an opening sufficient for my head, i put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, that no light shone out, and then i thrust in my head. oh, you
would have laughed to see how cunningly i thrust it in! i moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that i might not disturb the old man’s sleep. it took
me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that i could see him as he lay upon his bed. ha! would a madman have been so
wise as this? and then, when my head was well in the room, i undid the lantern cautiously—oh, so cautiously—cautiously
(for the hinges creaked)—i undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. and this i did for seven long nights—every night
just at midnight—but i found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his
evil eye. and every morning, when the day broke, i went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a
hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed the night. so you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every
night, just at twelve, i looked in upon him while he slept.

Explanation:

To find the sentence revealing the narrator's motive, we look for the part explaining why he wants to kill the old man. The sentence "for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye" directly states the reason: the old man's "Evil Eye" (not the old man himself) is what vexes the narrator, leading to the desire to kill.

Answer:

for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye