The narrator is a character whom is very nervous as it seems helped him contribute to his motivation to confess. The narrator in the beginning of the story expresses itself as a”nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous” who wouldn't deal with stuffs that really didn't helped him stayed calm. The narrator's character trait help motivate him to confess by him being nervous and wouldn’t be able to be so calm that what he heard was something that made him confess.