Edgar Allen Poe, the author of "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado", wrote both short stories in similar ways, but at the same time the two are very different. The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado are very similar in some ways. Both include a lot of symbolism. In the Black Cat, the narrator calls his cat Pluto, to symbolize death and the underworld, and in The Cask of Amontillado, the coat …showed first 75 words of 390 total…

…showed last 75 words of 390 total…kill the cat when he inadvertently killed his wife. <Tab/>"The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado" were written at about the same time during Poe's life. They show many things that he was experiencing during this time period, but they also show his short time emotions and feelings. The stories were similar in the motives behind them, with horrific themes and plots, but were different in the minute details.