The Black Cat

The protagonist of The Black Cat is the nameless Narrator. The readers do not know much about him except for the fact that he is an abuser and also a killer. He makes life challenging for all of his co-habitants, including his wife and two animals. Moreover, he makes life a living hell for himself because he is a victim of his evil deeds. The Narrator tells his story while being in a prison cell on the night he is scheduled to be executed. One can hear the guilt in Narrator 's confessions. However, he does not seem to understand that he is the reason of why the evil deeds occurred, blaming his pets for the tragedy. He states that if not for the cat, the crime scene would not have become so violent. Throughout reading the story, the readers begin

Personal subjective antagonist of the Narrator is the eyeless Black Cat. The animal reminds the Narrator of the tortures he caused to his other cat, Pluto. Narrator believes that the Black Cat deprived him of peace and made him murder his spouse with an axe: “The cat foil owed me down the steep stairs, and, nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me to madness” (Poe 22). The Black Cat simply wouldn 't leave the protagonist alone, making him irritated. The Black Cat was also the one to expose the Narrator. Clearly, Black Cat serves as a false imaginative antagonist of the story since it cannot be blamed for everything the Narrator blames her for. The real antagonist of the story is the Narrator himself as he is the only one to be guilty of everything he has done. There are two conflicts in the story The Black Cat. The obvious one is between the Narrator and the first cat named Pluto. After developing a drinking problem, the Narrator gouges the eye of the animal with a knife. He later finds themselves incapable of looking at the animal and kills it out of guilt. When describing the reasons that made him kill Pluto, the Narrator states: “It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself — to offer violence to