Told Heart and The Black Cat. The two stories I chose by Edgar Allan Poe are Told Heart and The Black Cat. These two stories in particular have a lot in common when it comes to technique, but there are some significant differences between the two. In this article I will try to compare and contrast these two stories and hope to bring to readers' attention something that wasn't there to begin with. One of the main differences in these two stories is the way the reader discovers the ends of the stories. In The Black Cat the reader discovers the end of the story in the traditional format. At the end of the story. However, in The Tell Tale Heart the reader knows the ending from the beginning of the story. An advantage of bringing the story full circle is that it allows the reader to try to focus on other aspects of the story, such as why and how. Poe makes the ending very clear to the reader, in doing so he makes him read with anticipation. The anticipation that is created makes the story more enjoyable. The Black Cat is written in the more traditional sense, which also has its advantages. A traditional way of writing is to flow the story from beginning to end. Poe is able to develop the characters as the story progresses and obviously not knowing the ending the story is full of surprises which make it unpredictable. Another technical difference that Poe uses between the two stories is the way anger is positioned. In The Tell Tale Heart the main character's anger is placed on the direct object he has issues with, but in The Black Cat the main character chooses to displace his anger onto an animal he had no qualms with previously. I think what Poe was trying to convey was that sometimes our anger is directed at things that we can't really react to, under normal circumstances (there were supernatural aspects to the story that wouldn't occur in a normal setting). As we read the story and see how the man is displacing his anger, we realize that we have all done this at one time or another.