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Unreliable Narrator In Edgar Allen Poe's Short Stories

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In Edgar Allen Poe's short stories, he uses first person narrative to make his writing so that the reader can see what the character is thinking. That is what makes the stories like The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart so very creepy and tense. That of the thoughts and the narrator is mostly unreliable makes the story interesting for the reader because the things they are saying may or may not be true while a reliable narrator can be trusted in what they see. In most of Poe's stories, the characters are unnamed. This factor adds to the creepiness and spooks that Poe has in The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart. The unnamed narration that Poe does in the stories that he writes like
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