John Samuel Rowell

In both the stories “ The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Hand” written by Guy de Maupassant, have many internal and external conflicts around the narrator. An internal conflict is a struggle that takes place in one's mind, or this is when you are having a war inside of you with your self. External conflicts are when one is in dispute with another man, nature, or the environment around them. Here are a few examples from each of the stories. In the short story “ The Tell Tale