The Black Cat Insanity

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Edgar Allen Poe in “The Black Cat” presents a narrator who is insane. His actions towards Pluto, his second cat, and his wife prove that he is mentally unstable. The narrator has a great deal of love for his animals, but even more so for his cat Pluto. Due to alcoholism the narrator feelings are altered by which he ends up maltreating Pluto. The narrator returns home one night very intoxicated and is convinced that the cat is abstaining from him. Then in which he misdeeds Pluto in this fashion: “I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut its eyes from the socket.” This analyzes how great the narrator's’ insanity is toward a defenseless tomcat. Continuing to drink