Main Character Entire Story Essay - 1,007 words

The black cat by Edgar Allan Poe is very characteristic of Poe's writing. All of his stories are dark and mysterious, and mostly deal with death and murder. The Black Cat deal in all of these aspects. The story is written in a first person way.


The main character, which is sentenced to death because of a murder he committed, is writing from his jail cell about the occurrence that placed him there. He is writing this to unburden his soul, as he put it. The man, Poe never reveals his name through out the entire story he just says I, begins by saying that he was always fond of animals. I believe that the animals in this story represent his life in all.


The entire story is placed around this one cat, which he affectionately named Pluto. He says that in his childhood he got along better with the animals that his parents had than others, With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding them. 1 When the man got married him and his wife had a house hold of pets with them. We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat 2 I think that by listing all these pets he was saying something about him self. Through the birds, fish and rabbits, I believe he was saying that he liked to be alone, but would associate with people if made to. For birds tend to keep to themselves in their cages but can be taught to talk and do other things.


I think that when he was made to be around people he would act like mans best friend a dog. Polite and free spirited. Through his symbol with the monkey I think that he was saying that he was like a wild animal made domestic. Now through the cat I think he made his greatest analogy. Cats tend to stay off by themselves but if they are around people they are around one person. Like the main character in this story, he tended to shy away from people and stick to himself and the cat.


The author continues to say that sometimes he would feel fits of aggression toward his wife and would sometimes even threat at personal violence 3. He even sheepishly admits that he took out this aggression on the animals around him, but for some unknown reason, he could not take anything out on the cat. But this did not last. For as he says: One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence... I took my pen knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat... and deliberately cut one of its eyes from I believe that the symbolism in this is very int ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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