Cat. This suggests that he may have been violent with his wife. In the tale, Eleonora, it tells of the narrator's marriage to his mother's sister, Eleonora, whom "for fifteen years roamed I with Eleonora before love entered within our hearts." This could have been his first wife, Virginia. Since dismemberment, mutilation and cannibalism were common in his stories, could it be possible that Poe had a thirst for torture like his characters did? Perhaps because of his tormented life, Poe only had the ability to write in the dark, demented tone that has made his works so popular. Maybe that was merely what Poe enjoyed writing about, or was best at writing. Maybe he himself wanted his stories to be a puzzle, not unlike his life. "That he can ever be categorized neatly biographically or artistically is not to be expected" (qtd. In Bloom). Only a person who experienced similar traumas can possibly fully understand the meaning of the tales of Edgar Allen Poe....
