As in many
of Poes stories, "" employs a narrator who spends the entire story trying to convince
the reader (and most importantly himself) about his mental stability. Obviously, when a man
commits the heinous crimes that this man has, there is something terribly wrong.
The story would certainly qualify for the horror genre of
stories. The details of the story feature the murder of the narrators wife,
burying an axe in her head. To add to the horrific crime, the man walls up his wife's body in
the cellar of their house. The point of view is first person with the narrator sitting in jail
awaiting his execution the next day.
Nothing constitutes revulsion more than
the maiming of an innocent animal. The cutting out of the cats
eye both shocks and disgusts. Taking the horror to the next level, the man hangs the cat on a
limb of a tree in the yard. ...
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