Piacentino, Ed. “Poe's ‘The Black Cat’ as Psychobiography: Some Reflections on the Narratological Dynamics”

Question 1

“In responding to this inevitable query, we need to realize that the narrator, since becoming a victim of ridicule to his childhood companions, never mentions that he and the woman whom he would marry loved one another, and perhaps only married because of a shared interest in pets”

Answer 1

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This may explain why the narrator was able to kill his wife out of rage and then hide her body

Question 2

we will heed the warning of James W. Gargano, who has cautiously advised the tale’s readers to avoid the biographical pitfall of seeing Poe and the first-person narrator of “The Black Cat” as “identical literary twins” (“The Question” 165). (2) Instead, the emphasis here will be to focus on the narratological dynamics of “The Black Cat”

Answer 2

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The narrator and Poe arent identical