Study Notes on "Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe

This is a story about someone whose life is troubled by fiend intemperance. He is annoyed by the cat, and he tortures it. He cuts out the cats eye, and is then annoyed by that, and ends up hanging the cat. The house burns down and left behind is a silhouette of the hanging cat. He gets another cat, and his wife tells him not to, and ends up getting an axe in her brain. He hides her in the cellar, but the police come and find her. There is an emphasis on the black cat.…