As the story goes on and the man’s personality changes from dark to darker so does the setting. After he finds another cat that looks just like the one he killed the man gets irritated with it and considers physical violence as he has before. So one day his wife and him go “into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.” (23) From the start you know that nothing good can happen in an abandoned cellar. Things go from bad to worse and long story short he ends up killing his very own wife and getting caught. The Black Cat written by Edgar Allan Poe fits the criteria for a gothic literature story but not
As the story goes on and the man’s personality changes from dark to darker so does the setting. After he finds another cat that looks just like the one he killed the man gets irritated with it and considers physical violence as he has before. So one day his wife and him go “into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.” (23) From the start you know that nothing good can happen in an abandoned cellar. Things go from bad to worse and long story short he ends up killing his very own wife and getting caught. The Black Cat written by Edgar Allan Poe fits the criteria for a gothic literature story but not