Imagine the situation that your whole house burns down as you see a dead hanging cat haunting your memory. The the author , Edgar Allan Poe, uses various of literary elements in the short story because the Edgar attends to adds more depth and meaning to the short story. Black Cat is about a married couple and their cat named Pluto.The man gets angry and kills the cat because of his alcohol problem and build up hate.He find another cat, kills it and his wife and end of this happy story. In the short story “Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism and unreliable narrator in order to convey of the anger and insanity