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The Black Cat: Deranged Narrator


Throughout the opening paragraph of "The Black Cat," the reader is
introduced to a narrator who, because of his grotesque actions, has become
mentally deranged and very untrustworthy, " . . . my very senses reject their
own evidence." The narration of this story is in the first person, which would
lead you to believe the narrator could be trusted to relate to you the true
events of the story, but this is false. The narrator in this story is
unreliable due to his horrid state of mind and body. The narrator cannot be
relied upon to show the reader the true events of the story, these events have
to be interpreted and the reader must come to his own conclusion as to what
really happened.
The reader is shown in the opening paragraph that he should not trust
the narrator to deliver the true events of the story. The narrator admits
throughout the story that his bad habits, namely alcoholism, lead to his
irrational state of mind. His alcoholism......

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