![]() ![]() This tension between freedom and confinement is repeated throughout the story, and is particularly intense when we look at some other aspects of the setting. The story is written from the narrator's jail cell, highlighting the theme of "Freedom and Confinement." The narrator writes from a space of confinement, and detailing the events that led him to prison is one of the few freedoms he has left. ![]() The vagueness of the homes in the story allows them to be any homes, anywhere. The story is about the bad things that can happen at home. He might not have had time to fool around with certain details, like when and where. ![]() In "The Black Cat" we have several different settings, but none of them are given much physical description. If you've read "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Pit and the Pendulum," or " The Fall of the House of Usher" then you know what we mean. Many Poe stories feature elaborately decorated rooms, described in great detail. ![]()
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