The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe - 14

  on the fourth day the police visited again and began to search the house. They looked into all the rooms and then went down into the cellar. I went with them, feeling calm and safe. I watched them as they looked everywhere. They seemed quite happy that there was nothing there and they got ready to leave. I was very happy. I was sure that I was safe, but I wanted to say something, just a word or two, to show how unworried I was.

  "Gentleman," I said, "I'm pleased that you've found nothing here, and that you are now leaving this house ... But let me show you something, gentlemen. Do you see how well built this house is? these walls, you will notice, are very strong." As I said these words, I knocked on the wall with a stick - the wall where I had hidden my wife!

 

주인공이 제정신이 아니죠. 인간의 완벽함이랄까요? 내면의 완벽함이랄까요? 완벽하게 숨어있는 인간의 내면에 존재하는 범죄의식, 혹은 삶과 죽음에 대한 이중성... 경계선에 대한 작자의 의도는 무얼까요?