... mob. In Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the quest for identity undertakes deeper meanings, which spring out from the exploration of the darker side of human nature. Either in The Black Cat or The Cask of Amontillado, the quest for the narrator's identity is linked to the search and discovery of the unconscious impulses, which are represented, in the first, through the ... image of "the black cat-, an embodiment of "the spirit of perverseness-, and in the latter, through the character of Fortunato, a double of the narrator, whom he symbolically tries to murder. The repression of these ....

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... giving life to "the fields", indicating Ethan. Fields are a suitable symbol of Ethan because of his close relationship with his natural surroundings on the farm. Zeena's "evil presence" of the black and brittle trees are her part in this natural scene. Wharton also pays particular attention to the positioning of these elements as Mattie and Ethan are behind Zeena's power, unsurprisingly ... . This leads to further evidence possibly illustrating Zeena's presence and therefore the constant obstruction surrounding the forbidden love. In Zeena's absence, "the cat" which "jumped between them ...

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