The Black Cat (day by day...)

"I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others"
-The black Cat page 16

This quote is very important to the overall story because it undoubtedly reveals character. In this brief moment where the narrator is communicating with us, he reveals how the presence of the new cat is beginning to make him feel. He says that he grows more moody and regardless of the feelings of others. This reveals to us a lot about his personality and character traits, which we would not have been able to have known earlier. Unexpectedly this quote also develops the genre of gothic literature in the story because this quote shows us how the narrator is slowly beginning to lose his mind even more now than ever and is becoming more unreliable.