The Black Cat - Leah, Paige, Tammy, Maddy, Alyssa, Nicole

Summary
In Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat, the main character is a man leading a
happy life with his wife and many household pets. His favorite of his pets is a black
cat, Pluto. The main character, however, becomes overwhelmed with alcohol and
in turn, becomes more irritable. He also becomes paranoid that the cat is avoiding
him for some reason. The main character begins to hate his former friend. One
night, after coming home intoxicated with alcohol, Pluto scratches the man’s hand
and in turn has his right eye cut out. The cat fears the man now, hiding from him at
every turn. The man becomes enraged, and out of anger and sorrow at his lost
friend, hangs the cat by the neck from a tree branch. Almost as suddenly, a new
cat appears; a black one with only a splash of white on his chest can tell him apart
from Pluto. Eventually the man grows to loathe this cat as well and attempts to
murder him with an axe. His wife stops him and is rewarded with an axe in her
head. Attempting to hide the corpse, the main character buries his dead wife in the
cellar wall. He raps on the wall in front of some policemen cockily showing he has
nothing to hide but then the cat is heard screeching from inside. He had
accidentally walled the cat up in the tomb. The police reveal what the man has
done and his punishment is to be hung.