The narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" was telling the facts that he had been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of his wife while trying to murder a second cat.
- The narrator was making his confessional statement, wherein he attempted to explain the events that led to his wife's murder. He was not just making himself seem insane to escape execution the next day.
- The narrator is typically an alcoholic, erratic, mentally paranoid, and violent. He killed the first black cat, named Pluto, by hanging because he was superstitiously afraid of its blackness.
- To eliminate the second cat in his house, he used an ax. In her attempt to prevent this, the wife intervened, only to lose her life, defending the cat.
- Edgar Allan Poe used this short story to draw attention to the dangers of alcoholism and the devastating tension between love and hate.
Thus, the narrator was relating facts and not excuses, even in his unstable mind.
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