Insanity by a Cat

	In the story “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is clearly insane as he torture then killed his cat then later, his wife. The narrator had a strong friendship bond with his cat Pluto, but when he was drunk, he cut one of Pluto’s eye from the socket. The cat ran in fear whenever the narrator is near, it irritate him. In the morning, he hung the cat by the neck “with tears steaming from [his] eyes... [he] felt it had given [him] no reason of offense...” (p.4) The narrator is not drunk when he killed Pluto for no reason. The narrator soon found another black cat that was similar to Pluto in every way except it had white hair on its breast. Soon hatred filled the narrator’s mind, the new cat reminded on the evil deeds he did to Pluto. He tried to avoid the cat but it kept on following him, finally he lost his mind as his “temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while from the sudden frequent and ungovernable outbursts of a fury...” (p.8). He killed Pluto because he ran away in fear when the narrator was near, but now the new cat will not leave him along, which angered him as well. When the police came to the narrator’s house for a inspection and was about to leave. The narrator acted calm and bragged on how his house was “very well constructed... very portion of the brick-word behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom” (p.10). Rather than letting the police leave, he stopped them and bragged on how secure the wall, which that hid the corpse of his dead wife.