Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat In Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat, Poe's narrator confesses to the brutal murder of his wife, in detail, blaming the black cat. In this story we see how human emotions and actions can be stretched beyond the limits of morality. The Black Cat raises questions of not only the character's sanity but of Poe's own. Even though Poe's sanity is questionable there is a positive theme in which to find his story useful. Poe's irony, symbolism, and unstable state of mind make for an exciting story with twists and surprises of superstition. In Poe's fictional story, names of characters are not mentioned nor are they important, for