Thursday, October 14, 2010

What is the point of view of "The Black Cat"?

The point of view of
this story is first-person objective. The first-person part means that the
narrator is a participant in the events that have taken place in the plot and that he uses the
first personal pronoun "I." The objective part means that the
narrator is telling the story after the events have already taken place, and so most verbs that
he uses will be in the past tense (as opposed to a subjective narrator, who
tells events as they take place using verbs in the present tense). The unnamed narrator of this
story does, in fact, use the first-person pronoun, "I," as we see several times in the
first paragraph alone, and he narrates events in which he has...

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