Response #8: Mood vs. Tone

After reading and watching the short film on "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe I know that Poe thinks that in every human there's caring, enpathy, and kindness. But under all of that there's also hate, evilness, a madness inside of us and that's what Poe focuses on.  The tone of "The Black Cat" is depressing but also confusing towards the end of the story. It appears to be like this because of how Poe had the main character lose his temper over the simplest things.