The Black Cat literary criticism

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…gallows on the second cat's breast. A warped sense of triumph and the conscience of the murderer cause the exposure of the crime. Poe has added a new element to aid in evoking the dark side of the narrator, and that is the supernatural. The story has a twist as the narrator hopes that the reader, like himself, will be convinced that these events were not an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.