There are many things that Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King’s narrators have in common and many things that are different. There will be only one similarity and one difference between the narrators explained in this essay. The narrators of The Black Cat and The Man in the Black Suit have similar points of view, however Poe’s difference of reliability results in the audience questioning the story.
The role of narrator is used in the same point of view, first person, in both The Black Cat and The Man in the Black Suit. The narrators in both of these stories are the main protagonists and are speaking using lots of I, me, and my. In, The Man in the Black Suit, the very first sentence of the story reads, “I am now a very old man and this is …show more content…
Which means that he is going to be one of the primary characters in the story. Also, the use of “I” displays the use of first person point of view. The similarities in the narrator’s point of views is significant because how the narrator portrays the plot of a story can change how readers understand it. The first person point of view from the primary character also is significant because it gives the audience a closer look at what is really going on in the tale and helps the readers to comprehend what is happening since they are getting from the person who was there. Poe’s narrator in The Black Cat also uses first person point of view, “I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own” (Poe 1). The narrator is using the word my to describe his marriage, which shows how the narrator is telling the tale from his point of view. The first person point of view in both pieces of literature gives the reader insight into what the narrator is thinking, feeling, how he feels about certain things and what he thinks is best to do in specific situations. Since the story is told in first person point of view, the audience gets to look inside the narrator’s brian and see his
The role of narrator is used in the same point of view, first person, in both The Black Cat and The Man in the Black Suit. The narrators in both of these stories are the main protagonists and are speaking using lots of I, me, and my. In, The Man in the Black Suit, the very first sentence of the story reads, “I am now a very old man and this is …show more content…
Which means that he is going to be one of the primary characters in the story. Also, the use of “I” displays the use of first person point of view. The similarities in the narrator’s point of views is significant because how the narrator portrays the plot of a story can change how readers understand it. The first person point of view from the primary character also is significant because it gives the audience a closer look at what is really going on in the tale and helps the readers to comprehend what is happening since they are getting from the person who was there. Poe’s narrator in The Black Cat also uses first person point of view, “I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own” (Poe 1). The narrator is using the word my to describe his marriage, which shows how the narrator is telling the tale from his point of view. The first person point of view in both pieces of literature gives the reader insight into what the narrator is thinking, feeling, how he feels about certain things and what he thinks is best to do in specific situations. Since the story is told in first person point of view, the audience gets to look inside the narrator’s brian and see his