Essay Archive - The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator
The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator
Throughout the opening paragraph of "The Black Cat," the reader is
introduced to a narrator who, because of his grotesque actions, has become
mentally deranged and very untrustworthy, " . . . my very senses reject their
own evidence." The narration of this story is in the first person, which would
lead you to believe the narrator could be trusted to relate to you the true
events of the story, but this is false. The narrator in this story is
unreliable due to his horrid state of mind and body. The narrator cannot be
relied upon to show the reader the true events of the story, these events....
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