The narrator usually tells the story almost as if he is talking to someone, that someone being the readers. Poe stages “Black Cat” with the narrator telling readers that he is not crazy, but his story tells the exact opposite. Poe writes fiction in a very gothic style in which Poe's characters suffer self-destruction. In the settings of “Black Cat,” the narrator has already destroyed himself because of his alcoholism, which he calls an illness. While Poe uses specific details about how the narrator enters madness, readers see the narrator at the end as he relates that he is finally able to rest. The narrator says: “He did not appear during the night and so for at least one night, since my introduction into the house, I slept soundly and peacefully. » (700). He can rest because the cat is not there to taunt him. Although he killed his wife, it is the fact that the beast, a name he calls the cat, is not there that allows him to get a good night's rest for the next 3 days. He continues this quote with: “The second and third days pass, and my executioner still has not come. Once again, I breathed like a free man. The terrified monster had fled the scene forever” (700)! He's paranoid because of the cat. The cat was no different from Pluto because the cat showed affection to him because later in the years, due to abuse, Pluto ran away from the narrator. He finds it strange that the cat looks like Pluto, with the gouged out eye and everything..,