the black cat
...es is symbolic of evil or satanic is just the opposite in the beginning. He even names the black cat “Pluto” which is the Roman God of the underworld. His growing change in his temperament has to do with his excessive binge drinking. He frequently abused his many pets and wife, which he states I even offered her personal violence. It was his drinking and temperament that enabled him to cut out the eye of Pluto when he was to ignore him one night. It was his drinking that enabled him to sleep off the crime in which in had committed. It was his drinking that caused him to take Pluto and place a noose around his neck and hanged him from a tree in garden. In his own perverseness when he had cut out the eye of Pluto, he tried desperately to condemn himself with the last act of cruelty as to hang the black cat from that tree with a noose around his neck. It was by his own insanity to be awoken by the fire or by the crashing of the window when the dead cat had been thrown in by someone in the crowd who had gathered in the garden. It seems that a fire had started in which the whole house was consumed and only he, his wife and servant were the only ones to escape. All his wealth had been destroyed by the fire. Was it an act of evil or satanic means that the death of the cat had caused the fire? Could it be the cause and effect that he had mentioned from his jail cell? His continued haunts to the local gin factory enabled him to rid himself of any feeling of remorse. His feelings of regret prompted him to actually miss the black cat which he had plucked his eye out and eventually hanged. Could it be the cause and effect that he talked about in the beginning to conjure up another cat, only this one being black with a white patch in his chest and also missing an eye? To his annoyance the cat fancied his wife to him. Any attention that it showed towards him, made him disgusted. It went from disgust and annoyance to bitterne...