On Werdegast's instruction, Peter carries an unconscious Joan to the fortress-like home of Werdergast's Austrian acquaintance, famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. When they disembark at the same town, the three share a bus, but just as the driver explains how the area had been Hungary's greatest battleground during World War I, the bus crashes and the driver is killed.
Werdegast explains that eighteen years previously he left his wife to go to war, and has just returned from spending fifteen years in an infamous prison camp. When the young couple falls asleep, Werdegast strokes Joan's hair, but Peter awakens and catches him in the act. Vitus Werdegast, a Hungarian psychiatrist. The research concludes that trauma patterns based on Caruth's (1996) study appear in the story and it may help further study narrative in trauma study.In Budapest, honeymooners Peter Alison, a mystery writer, and his wife Joan board a train bound for a resort near a small Hungarian town, and are joined in their compartment by Dr. The results show that (1) trauma is suffered through narrator’s attachment with the cat, (2) narrator’s regret of his wrongful violence, (3) through the repeating appearance of the cat, the trauma is reconstructed in the story, and (4) through trauma the character suffer mental deteriorations. The data then is interpreted using Caruth’s (1996) model on analyzing trauma in literature. The data is analyzed using textual analysis trough close reading activity.
To fill the gaps in the research on "The Black Cat", this study aims to analyze the construction of trauma in the story and its effect on the story in narrative form.
Studies on trauma in Poe's story are mentioned in Journal The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2019) as part of its further study on Poe's works. Trauma in a way can be described as a recollecting memory of unpleasant events that may harm the mind of the one who suffers it. This research aims to analyze trauma in short story "The Black Cat" (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe.
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