Black Cat

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With guilt eating away at his conscious, the man's sanity falls further into degradation, and he unleashes his cruelty on an innocent victim. The narrator describes the force of destruction that drives him as "the spirit of Perverseness", and this impulse causes him to remorsefully hang the cat because he knows that it loves him and it is an act he should not commit (para.9).
The appearance of the second black cat casts a spellbinding power over an already guilt sickened mind. At first the narrator is very pleased by the affection bestowed upon him by the second cat, but little by little he begins to dread and loathe its mere presence (para 16-17). In the beginning, the affection of the new animal eases the man's tormented conscious, but eventually its presence begins to serve only as a reminder of the horrors that he inflicted on Pluto. Underlying feelings of guilt caused by the hideous crime committed against Pluto, obviously surface and erode the narrators ...

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