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Two minds, different circumstances yet both insane and unreliable. That is how the author Edgar Allan Poe portrays the characters. These two narrators in each story don’t make sense in connecting there events in there story telling, that is why we look upon them as unreliable.
In “The Black Cat” the narrator is not only an alcoholic but shows us his unrealistic logical thinking. One example of this is how the narrator claims that after his house burnt down a huge print of his cat that he had recently hung, appeared in the middle of his house. Well that doesn’t make sense being that his room was in the middle of the house. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” also Edgar Allan Poe portrays the narrator in the same way. There are things in the story that make us think twice about the sanity of the narrator. There was an incident in the story where the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” makes himself sound insane. He describes the heart of the victims beating so loud he thought his neighbor would hear it. That’s not possible for someone heart to beat so loud the person next door could hear it.
These two narrators both give us a little insight on there state of mind. The narrator in the “The Black Cat” feels that it is normal to let your anger out. He feels it is the spirit of perverseness, that everyone has that makes them want to kill and hurt the people we love. He tries to justify his actions of killing his wife and cats. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator makes it seem as if it’s okay to kill someone because of something that bugs you about them. For example he killed the man because his eye was bugging him.
In “The Black Cat” the narrator feels no remorse for killing his wife, but it’s more acceptable from him since he was an alcoholic. Although that