Edgar Allan Poe The Black Cat Story |best| -

One night, returning home drunk, the narrator feels the cat avoiding him. He grabs Pluto, who bites his hand. In a demonic rage, the narrator pulls a penknife and cuts out one of the cat’s eyes.

One day in the cellar, the cat trips him. Enraged, he grabs an axe to kill it. His wife stops his arm. In a fury, he buries the axe in her brain. She dies instantly. edgar allan poe the black cat story

The narrator was once a gentle, animal-loving child, and as an adult he and his wife kept many pets. His favorite was a large black cat named Pluto (after the Roman god of the underworld). The narrator’s personality changes due to alcoholism. He grows irritable, violent, and begins mistreating his wife and animals. One night, returning home drunk, the narrator feels

Four days later, police arrive to investigate reports of her disappearance. They find nothing. The narrator casually taps on the wall where his wife is hidden. A loud, shrieking cry comes from within. They tear down the wall and find the wife’s corpse – and on her head, the black cat, alive, its mouth open in a scream. The narrator had accidentally walled the cat up with her. One day in the cellar, the cat trips him