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Arts & Humanities > American Literature Literary analysis: The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe

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'The Black Cat' is a tale that leaves the reader somewhat perplexed. It certainly contains all the ingredients necessary to satisfy the appetite of any Poe enthusiast - an enigmatic narrator, alcohol and the effects thereof, mutilation, strangulation, murder, putrefaction, and, last but not least, one of Poe's slight (but recurring) obsessions, perversity - but we are left wondering whether the tale really amounts to anything much at all.

We could almost split it into two halves: one that contains a couple of ideas worth considering; and another that simply indulges briefly in an unlikel...

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