The narrator usually tells the story almost as if he is talking to someone, that someone is the readers. Poe sets up “Black Cat” with the narrator telling readers he is not crazy but then his story tells the exact opposite. Poe writes very gothic style novels in which Poe's characters suffer from self-destruction. In the settings of “Black Cat” the narrator has already destroyed himself due to his alcoholism which he defines as an illness. While Poe uses in-depth details about how the narrator enters madness, readers see the narrator at the end saying that he is finally able to rest. The narrator says: “He did not appear during the night and so for one night at least, since I entered the house, I slept soundly and peacefully.” (700). He can rest because the cat is not there to taunt him. Even though he killed his wife, the fact is that the beast, name he calls cat, is not there, so he can rest very well for the next 3 days. He follows that quote with “The second and third days pass, and still my tormentor has not come. Once again I breathed a free man. The terrified monster had fled the premises forever” (700)! He's paranoid about the cat. The cat was different from Pluto because it showed him affection as later in the years due to the abuse Pluto ran away from the narrator. He finds it strange that the cat looks like Pluto, gouged out eye and all,