In at least one hundred words, describe the narrator’s psychological descent in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat.” Use information from the text to support your answer.

If we are to believe the narrator of “The Black Cat”—and that's a pretty big if—he used to be a kind, considerate human being with a sentimental attachment to animals. Back in the day, his house was a veritable menagerie, jam-packed with all kinds of pets that the narrator would happily feed and caress.

The narrator further goes on to tell us that this “peculiarity of character” of his remained as he made the transition from boyhood to adulthood. He positively reveled in the companionship of animals, whose “unselfish and self-sacrificing love” was vastly superior to the “paltry friendship” and “gossamer fidelity” of men. In other words, the narrator preferred animals to humans.

Yet by the time we've reached the end of the story, the narrator has experienced a profound change—and not for the better. In a fit of rage, he kills what was once a beloved pet cat called Pluto. Later on, his brain further tormented by alcohol and mental illness, he kills his wife

Explanation:

Dave's desire to escape slavery greatly reflects the African-American desire to escape oppression and poverty. Dave is struggling to declare his identity with the occurrence of the rural south in his place. Throughout the story, Dave is very irritated because of the way he is being treated by whites and how he basically has no freedom. His search for adulthood is exactly how most African-Americans felt and acted during that time. Dave also gets so fed up that he wants to actually fight back which is how all the other African-Americans felt too. Desperation is a major theme in the story as Dave is desperate to experience his adulthood, and African-Americans are desperate to escape poverty.

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