![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the narrator’s “true” motive for murdering his wife has been a subject of much debate among critics and while “Few critics seriously accept the narrator’s own dubious rationalizations for the cruel murder either of his pet cat or of his wife,” (Piacentino), a rationalization is, indeed, given by the narrator who cites the black cat, “the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder,” (Poe 255) as the cause of his homicidal rage. ![]() Key to the story is the murder of the narrator’s wife by the narrator himself, who seemingly murders his own wife in a fit of rage over a disagreement involving their black cat. Literature Review of “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen PoeĪlthough most of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous works of short fiction are renowned for their unity of expression and the obvious craftsmanship of their respective narratives, Poe’s story “The Black Cat,” remains one of the most troubling and technically complex of his short stories. ![]()
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