Literary Analysis: Black Cat This story is written by Edgar Allen Poe and is written in first person. I believe that Poe wrote this story in first person. I believe that Poe wrote this story in first person, as he writes all his older stories to give an element of presents. “I took from pay waistcoat pocket a pen, knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut out one of …showed first 75 words of 265 total…

…showed last 75 words of 265 total…come they hear the screams of the cat in the wall and get the killer so in a way it is ironic that the very life that he tries to take, that ? being the cats, is the very same life that ends his, by sending him to prison. The author uses medium size sentences with big connotation to cross his point to his readers. I have found that Poe does this in all his stories.