Question

In your opinion, did Poe's use of a first-person narrator make "The Black Cat' more interesting to read? Support your

answer with three examples from the story.

Answer 1

In my opinion, yes, Poe's use of a first-person narrator did, in fact, make his work titled "The Black Cat" significantly more interesting to read. In writing the story in first-person view, the reader is better able to get a grasp of the disturbing feelings that are meant to be expressed through the narrator's personal lens. The madness and desperation that is felt by the main character is all too clear when written from the first-person point of view. The reader's idea of the emotions expressed are largely in part due to the first-person perspective, wherein the reader is directly made aware of the thoughts and feelings of the main character. Without it being in first-person, the reader would not have been able to have been so enveloped in the telling of the story, almost feeling the same emotions and thoughts and seeing through the same eyes as the narrator themself. Had Poe told the story in any other point of view, these distinctions between the reader and narrator's views would not have been so muddled, and there would be a certain disconnect between the reader because they are not directly experiencing the narrator's thoughts and going through the same actions.

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Answer 2

Yes, Poe's use of a first-person narrative makes "The Black Cat" more interesting to read.

The three supportive examples are:

Step-by-step explanation:

'The Black Cat' is a short Gothic story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is narrated by an anonymous narrator, who is to be sentenced to death the next morning. The story is narrated using firs-person point of view, and Poe uses an 'unreliable narrator' in first-person narration.

Using an 'unreliable narrator' and first-person point of view is skillfully pulled-off. Reading a text, which is narrated by an unreliable narrator is interesting to readers as it tends to create suspense in the story. First suspense is build at the very beginning of story, when narrator narrates and confesses about his crime of murder and at the same time tries to persuade his readers of his sanity.

Textual evidences:

'FOR the most wild yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not—and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul.'

Secondly, when narrator unfolds his purpose of narrating his story is interesting.

'My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified—have tortured—have destroyed me.'

It becomes interesting to readers when the readers are introduced to the cat- Pluto. The name Pluto is the name of the god of underworld who oversees witches. And black cat is mostly alluded to susperstitous belief that they are connected to witches. This builds interest in readers mind to keep on reading.

'In speaking of his intelligence, my wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise.'