What is guilt What is guilt Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believesaccurately or notthat he or she has violated a moral standard and bears significant responsibility for that violation Guilt played a major factor in the short stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver Management of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee and The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Each of these short stories displayed guilt in their on way In wh