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Who Is The Narrator In The Black Cat
The Black Cat Narrator.

Is the narrator in The Black Cat well some people say that he is but others out there might see, and say that he is not a psychopath. Yes the only way that i could see them thinking that he isn't a psychopath is that he/she got a little through and stop reading it but if they did read it all the only way that they could think he is not a psychopath is that they think that the things that he does is only a psychopathic intention and it is just like a flaw that regular people have. The Narrator never says his real name he always never brings attention to the name he always take the intion away and he also does not call himself the narrator he just goes on with the story and never says his name.
So the way that he might be a psychopath is that well I mean that he is a psychopath is that he has the intensions in the story itself is says (I swung the axe at the cat my wife stopped me and I pushed her hand and killed her) So that he cannot control his anger at the cat people and places around him. There is also the time where he tries to hide his wife's body he says that he is the bomb at hiding the body. So the way he feels the emotions that he feels are completely opposite of the other than what he should be feeling. So that is some of the feelings of the narrator that says that he
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