What is the main tone of Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Black Cat?" This is for a literary analysis of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe; my theme is

Your
definition of tone is accurate. I think that the difficulty with 's "" is that his
tone is ironic.

The definition ofis the difference between what we expect to
happen and what really happens. The narrator starts by eliciting our sympathy, along with
establishing himself as a reliable narrator.

The narrator tries to convince
the reader that the occurrence of every day incidents lead to his fate, even when he stabs the
cat (Pluto) in the eye. By the time he kills the cat, the reader is
beginning to seriously suspect that what the narrator is saying is not
entirely accurate.

The narrator soon becomes an
unreliable voice; we discover he is in jail waiting to be executed, but it
is not until later that we realize he has committed murdersomething we may not be totally
prepared for. This is another "swoop" the plot takes as the narrator weaves his tale,
even as he reports the image of the cat hanging from a noose burned onto his house's wall (which
the author...