The Black Cat

I chose Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Black Cat.” The revisions I made are at the ending of this story because it seemed very similar to another one of Poe’s works. “The Cask of Amontillado” mimics “The Black Cat” because the main character kills the other person and places the body behind a brick wall.
The central issues of the story are both internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict is between the man and his subconscious and the constant idea that he is fighting to kill the cats. Poe shows us the man’s conflict through, “I knew myself no longer” (131). “This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil- and yet I should be at a loss how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own, yes, even in the felon’s cell, I am almost ashamed to own- that terror and horror with which the animal inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimeras it would be possible to conceive” (133). It is almost as if the man has asha...