The narrator of “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe is, without a doubt, crazy. The first word that comes to mind when thinking of the exact type of mental illness that the narrator suffers from is, Schizophrenia. When a person is schizophrenic their personality can change drastically from one minute to the next. The main character’s emotions jump all over the place through out the story. One minute he loves his cat; and the next he is killing it. It all seems very odd because that is not normal behavior. One example of the narr ....