Edgar Allen Poe
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In reading these stories I have chosen, the very first thing that is noticed is that all of them are narrated in the first person, giving the reader the illusion that Poe himself is talking to you, and not a character in the story. The narrator is ALWAYS nameless. He also gives the reader a small but really clear glimpse in to his personal own life.
In The Black Cat, the narrator walks us through his life. He grew up loving animals, a tender hearted person, as Poe did. He married early, but his wife only liked domesticated animals, while he liked the opposite, which seems to be a deep issue for the narrator. This appears to be the beginning of a change for the narrator. The central pet in the story, Pluto, was a big black cat for which the narrator, in the beginning, loved very much. In time however, he began feeling hatred for it. He would drink and drink, come home constantly drunk, and day-by-day he grew more moody, irritable, and started to treat his wife bad...