The Black Cat Analysis

When I think of the abnormally insane, I seize my focus on the characters Wendy and Peter in “The Veldt”, as well as the narrator in “The Black Cat”. Characters in “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury with Wendy and Peter, and in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” narrator all perceive their characters with distorted senses of reality. Their perceptions can drive them so crazy that all their beliefs seem like fact. The narrator from “The Black Cat” exhibits the most distorted sense of reality as he has done the worst crimes and was rewarded with the worst outcomes. From his thoughts of anger and and his alcoholism problem that then lead him down the road to insanity which consumed him and became the most distorted character.

It is my belief that the
Alcohol as been known to cause a lot of brain damage and slows down their thinking process and reactions. Alcohol also has been known to drastically affect emotions. We see evidence of this when the narrator brutally tortures his cat after not giving him attention causing it to shun him. As an effect of this the narrator is then full of guilt and hangs the cat. The narrator clearly has an obsession with alcohol as we hear him mention in the story a lot about how he goes to a lot of bars, and he goes home only to fight with his wife while he is drunk and wake up the next day to find himself depressed. We also see his alcohol take control of his emotions again when out of anger murders his wife. After the attack we saw the narrator in his saddest shape yet as he lays by his dead wife asking for forgiveness. The narrator’s ability to be affected by alcohol so easily drastically changed his perception of the world by giving his brain a boost in false belief. In short I believe that the narrator’s alcoholism further boosts my reason for belief that he truly has the most distorted sense of
The narrator believes that this evil black cat is forever haunting him for killing the first one. For instance during the start of the story we hear him say, “I am a poor victim, a man haunted and doomed by an evil black cat”. From this foreshadowing we can see that this narrator believes in the supernatural and has been driven insane. Strangely enough, at the start we hear him say that he doesn’t believe in such foolishness and thinks it is stupid. However, when he see’s the scarred image of a cat on the fireplace he begins to question himself. It’s from here he sees the bad luck the cat has finally caused and believes he has been cursed for killing it. In effect of this the narrator turns insane and develops a grudge for the cat. The narrator now believes that the cat is bringing him mischief beyond imagining. His obsession with the idea that this horrid cat is haunting him is shocking him into becoming