Is the old man in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ blind?

No, the old man in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is not blind. Throughout the story, it is made clear that the old man has a keen awareness of his surroundings, despite his age. The narrator describes him as having a ‘vulture-like’ eye, which is a source of obsession and fear for the narrator. The focus of the story is primarily on the narrator’s troubled mind and his fixation on the eye rather than any physical disabilities of the old man. The old man’s capacity to see and perceive his environment plays a crucial role in the tension that builds as the narrator’s madness unfolds.