![]() That mastery is given one of its finest exhibitions in "The Black Cat." Edgar Allan Poe remains the sublime master of the first-person tale of terror told by an unreliable narrator. Under such intensely emotional circumstances, who on earth could possibly retain the state of mind necessary to relate such a horrific tale in such a controlled manner without absolutely aching for the reader or listener to believe him? The opening line of this story is a bright shining light spelling out words in the sky: DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING THIS GUY IS ABOUT TO SAY. In the first place, if the events of the story are to be believed at all, there is only one conceptual setting from which the first-person narration of those events could logically originate: in the custody of the judicial system somewhere between being arrested for murder and being executed for that murder. ![]() ![]() “For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.” Narratorįrom the moment the story begins, the reader has reason to be skeptical of the narrator. ![]()
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