Gothic Elements In The Black Cat And Sharp Objects

Within these three stories The Black Cat, The feather pillow, and Sharp objects, they all have similar literary elements: it’s dark and cryptic. They all have deep meanings and gothic elements. They are very different than the usual happy endings bullcrap, and they are more of the tragedy and very morbid type. There are scenes of violent and morbid/grotesque actions in the novel Sharp Objects. Actions that people of the right mind wouldn’t do. “The three blondes held Ann down, While Amma strangled her with a clothesline she’d stolen from a neighbor’s tool shed. It took an hour to calm Jodes down and another hour for Amma to pull the teeth out,” (Flynn 247) The Gothic elements are violence and morbid actions. There is an element of