Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative. Which statement best describes the narrator's reliability in "The Black Cat"?

1: The narrator is reliable because he describes how much he loved animals when he was a young man.

2: The narrator is unreliable because his use of alcohol alters his character and behavior.

3: The narrator is reliable because he honestly regrets how he treats his wife.

4: The narrator is unreliable because he denies that he ever mistreated his cat, Pluto.

theres no poem include that

the answer to the question is a

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

the answer is definitely d. sorry for a late response.