Part one of term paper
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” is a perverse grotesque short story. What makes this tale so horrific is how Poe has created an unreliable, and nameless, narrator to tell this story. Telling this story from the first person point of view intensifies the shock and horror, which stops short of “the wavering line of disgust” (Womac ...

Part two of term paper
... as he awaits his execution, is evidence to his unreliable, yet most exaggerated tale. However, the narrator’s obsession with supernatural forces gives way for an almost evil presence; which asks the reader to question if any event could actually occur, as the narrator himself is not so sure. First of all, it is obvious to the reader that the root of all the narrator’s problems arise from his alcoholism; and he agrees that from this sole vice, he has “…experienced a radical alteration ...