In “The Black Cat” the narrator takes his anger out on his pets, including his favorite cat Pluto, and ultimately his wife. For example, the narrator carves out Pluto’s eye with a penknife simply because he believed he was avoiding him. His irrational and uncontrollable anger was also illustrated when he attempted to kill his second cat for almost tripping him. And because his wife prevented him from killing this cat, in a fit of rage he strikes her on the head with an axe and kills her. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator’s anger is fueled by the “thousand injuries” and insults inflicted on him by his supposed friend Fortunato.
The Man in this story is an alcoholic, yet that is still no excuse for the actions that he did. It is said that he loves his animals and enjoy them very much and out of all, his favorite is his cat. Yet something suddenly urged him to hurt his cat and it says “ I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!”. If this guy was not insane he wouldn’t counteract his words of loving his cat so much, then going about hurting the innocent animal. At the same time he felt some remorse, and knew what he did was wrong, and to cope with what he chose to do to his cat, he drank the memory away.
Another quote to this is ‘ look George. Look what I done’ this quote is showing that Lennie is asking for approval like a kid, like he wants to be congratulated and praised. There relationship can be a bit weird at times like when they are round the fire, George is shouting at Lennie saying that he could be living in a cat house every night and could easily live without him but in a matter of minutes he change and is trying to comfort Lennie and is apologizing to him. Lennie at this moment cleverly uses this to his advantage and try’s to get his mouse back. George knows Lennie like a son he knows when he is lying about having a mouse ‘ you aint putting nothing over.’ You can tell that they have been together for a long time.
Evidence of Suffering in The Catcher in the Rye In The Catcher in the Rye Holden suffers from the death of his beloved, younger brother, his self-imposed alienation because of his inability to feel comfort around people and his nervous tendencies towards sex and sexuality. In the novel, Holden frequently reflects on Allie and praises him on his intelligence, kindness and attraction from others. Holden describes Allie as the perfect child and loved by all of his teachers. Unfortunately, Allie died from leukemia when Holden was thirteen. When Allie died, Holden smashed every window in his garage; his violent action foreshadowed his later self-destructive personality.
He has found Victor and has taken him to a cave where he is trying to explain to victor what his life has been like and why he killed Victors little brother William. In one particular sentence our hearts really go out to the monster this is when he says to victor “I was a poor helpless, miserable wrench; I knew, and
The racial discrimination from the 1930s in America highly affects him, “ they play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all stink to me”, this quote shows that Crooks gets bitter because of loneliness. When Crooks scares Lennie about George not coming back, Crooks “face lighted with pleasure in his torture”, this quote demonstrates what George meant when he told Slim: “I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good… they get mean”.
Steinbeck uses Candy to show the theme of loneliness. He initially becomes lonely once his dog is shot and killed. The dog was his closest companion. Candy told George, "You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else.
A fine crash from the piano greeted the words, interrupted by a shuddering cry from the old man.” (36) As Mr. White wished upon the monkey’s paw for something unnecessary, the eerie effects of the wish began. Therefore, this foreshadows the atrocious consequences of his wish that were already taking place. Although it is true that wishing for two hundred pounds portrayed to be insignificant, the Whites quickly understood the dangers as “The visitor bowed in assent. ‘Badly hurt.’ He said quietly. ‘But he is not in any pain.’ ” (38) Ultimately, the visitor is bringing the cataclysmic news of the death of their son Herbert.
Let me cite the example of the man from “Black Cat” and the man from “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The resemblance in both these cases is the madness of the protagonists which is also shown by the sentence structure; for example “very dreadfully nervous I had been and am” and “Yet, mad am I not” represent the disorder of subject and verb. But “the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or not the loftiest intelligence…” The first point which comes into my mind, reading the stories, is assertion which is a human instinct. All the human beings try to say what they believe. So, the dislike for the “vulture eye” and “the cat” made them assert that they were not insane.
Tell-Tale Heart Literary Analysis What a person does in the dark will come to the light./ In the end of life, we are all judged by a higher being for our actions. / We are generally determined as a good person or bad person depending on the majority of good or bad we have done in our life. / But in the end, all our secrets will come out. / Many pieces of literature explore the topic of good and evil. / Author Edgar Allen Poe, in his eerie short story “The Tell-Tell Heart,” uses mood, symbolism and themes to explore the dark world of evil.