Mood Of The Black Cat

The Black Cat is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is about a man who murders a cat that he thinks is suspicious and then later murders his wife. The mood of the story is full of eerie and spooky events that help the narrator to keep the reader reading. The setting in the beginning of the story is the narrator telling the true events of what really happened to the black cat him and his wife once had and what really happened to his wife. On page one of the story the narrator says, “My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly and without comments a series of mere household events”.
In the beginning part of the story, the narrator tells about his life before he began drinking. At an early age the narrator had a loving relationship with animals. This adds to the irony of the story because later in the story he murders a cat and is haunted and becomes afraid of another cat. On page two, the narrator says, “One night, returning home, much intoxicated from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence”. With the narrator being drunk he took a knife and cut out the cat's eye. He then hung the cat in a tree in his yard. This adds to the mood of the story because the story is now suddenly becoming more and more spooky.

The narrator tries to avoid the second black cat because it reminds the character of the first cat he had once before. This adds to the irony and mood of the story because early in the narrator’s life he seemed to love animals, but now he tries to avoid them. The irony that is in the story is that the second cat also is missing an eye. On page three the narrator says, “What added, no doubt to my hatred of the beast, was the discovery on the morning after i brought it home that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its