![]() “Poe is one of the best-known American authors, but his literary legacy is complex and confusing. ![]() Poe joined the military as a young man in part to get away from this situation, and even at the height of his writing career, he was plagued by problems of financial difficulties and alcoholism. Poe’s early life was marked by hardship as his estranged foster father never gave him any money (his mother was a vaudeville actress) and expected him to get a job like an accountant, and frowned on his ideas of becoming a writer. Although he is best remembered as a writer of macabre and horror stories, but he was also an extensive essayist, poet, and prolific originator of new forms of literature in America. ![]() In terms of background, before the analysis of these stories, something must be said of Poe himself. Looking at the stories “The Black Cat,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” one can see psychological complexities and keen descriptions of human behavior, which show Poe to be an author with a keen grasp of the human mind and its workings. ![]()
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