Summary of The Black Cat
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ScribdTranslationsThe Black Cat is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the
nature of evil. The narrator, who claims to be mentally unstable, recounts his life and the deterioration of his psyche after a series of violent events, primarily influenced by alcoholism. He becomes increasingly cruel to his pets, especially his beloved black cat, Pluto. Eventually, in a fit of rage, he blinds Pluto and later kills him. Haunted by guilt, the narrator adopts another cat that resembles Pluto but has a distinct white patch. This new cat drives him to madness, and in a moment of fury, he kills his wife when she intervenes while he tries to harm the cat. In an attempt to conceal his crime, he hides her body in the wall of their home. However, when the police arrive, the narrator: ironically reveals his guilt by boasting about how well he concealed the body, leading to the discovery of his wife's remains and the cat's wailing within the walls.
In the story 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrative tells the story of a character
ignoring his name.
He has a passion or love for animals, being his latest acquisition after
marry, a cat I call Pluto, an animal for which I have developed a great affection, but I notice
that after several years, his temperament and character had radically changed due to
blame of this animal, thought incited by the superstition of his wife.
One night when he was coming home completely drunk, he thought the cat was avoiding.
his presence and in a moment of anger he made him jump an eye with a pocket knife as a weapon.
Later he regretted it, but the cat was left without one of its eyeballs. Shortly after a
tomorrow cold-blooded he put a rope around his neck and hanged him on a tree branch, but
the night of that same day he woke up finding the house engulfed in flames, and the only thing that
It could remain standing, it was a partition with the image of the cat.
After a while, his situation was relatively normal; he had a house, a wife, and projects.
for the future, until one day he found a cat that looked somewhat like Pluto, which he took to
his house; a cat that he came to hate for several of its similarities with his former favorite pet.
One day he decided to kill him, he held an axe in his hands, but his wife's hands...
they halted their trajectory towards the poor animal, but in a moment of extreme madness and
Rabia struck the axe into her head, killing his wife.
Seeing the situation he was in, he decided to make a hole in the wall.
introducing the corpse and covering it as if it were intact, then continued with
kill the cat without being able to find it.
Shortly after, people began to suspect the disappearance of their neighbor and the
the police incriminated him as the main suspect.
At the time of the inspection in the basement of his house, the police heard sounds of the
wall that our disturbed character had hit to make the officers notice him
(certainly tormented) that their house had a good structure, they proceeded to tear it down.
the wall where they found the cat on top of the head of his wife's corpse.