My favorite piece out of the Edgar Allan Poe's three selections is “The Black Cat” because the story is more horrifying and less predictable than the other two stories. Not only because of the length of the piece, the story has more opportunities for the reader to sympathize with the narrator, including being an animal lover. In contrast to the other short stories, the respective narrators of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” are literally characterized as a felon or a remorseless psychopath because Poe has not given as much thought into their motivations as the narrator in “The Black Cat”. Therefore, this allows for readers such as myself to identify with the narrator and their battle with modern societal views on how meek
