The narrator is a first-person one, the protagonist of the story, who is clearly mentally unstable. This also makes him an unreliable narrator, one a reader cannot really trust to tell him/her the entire truth.
In this story, the narrator reveals his powers of concentration through two methods: 1) by telling the reader what he has done, and 2) boasting about his meticulous nature and his cleverness. He observes the the old man's eye that he is obsessed with and repulsed by night after night, standing perfectly still for hours upon end. How anyone could stand still and peep through a crack in the door to stare at an eye for hours is beyond comprehension.
In addition, the narrator has taken great care to clean up after the murder and dismember the body in order to cover his crime. He is quite proud of his tidiness. His confidence (arrogance, really) about his own ability to get away with this murder allows him to concentrate on doing the job the way he wants it done.
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