“The Tell-Tale heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe both portrays the narrators’ train  of thoughts during their murder scenes. Many of Poe’s stories talk about how the narrator plans and conducts  a murder.
go deeper than this & find more unaddressed or unsettled issues. “Enemies” is an unusual word here, esp.  for “Tell Tale Heart.” Also, as we established, neither narrator feels remorse; they are only concerned with  proving their own intellect, sanity, and power to the reader.

in the “The Black Cat,” since it has so much in common with these two? If he’s avoiding conscience and  remorse, what emotions is he really portraying? And what do they have to do with a young America? If you can  answer those two questions,