Tuesday, 10 November 2015

What is the mood in "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe?

Ollie Kertzmann, M.A.

The prevailing mood in "" byis one of unease and, later, disgust. Even at the
beginning of Poe's story when the narrator is detailing his happy life and hasn't committed any
violent acts, Poe shows that there's something rotten simmering under the surface. When the
reader begins to understand what that narrator has done, disgust joins unease in creating the
mood of the story. 

Poe sets the scene by having the narrator address the
audience before beginning his tale. He says that "Tomorrow I die, and today I would
unburden my soul" which already shows that something is wrong; either the narrator has
committed a terrible...

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