Message #178154

[MsRowdyRedhead]

Look at the link I posted for you, and then read The Black Cat again. It should make sense by then, and then if you still need help, ask specific questions and we will try to help.

* Plot summary

A decent, animal-loving man takes to drink and suffers a change for the worse, becoming an alcoholic. Imagining one evening that his beloved black cat is avoiding him he grabs it; the startled cat scratches him so he retaliates. Soon after, possessed by the alcohol, he reluctantly the poor creature by the neck from a tree. Then his house burns down and in the ruins he imagines seeing the shape of a cat imprinted on a wall... a cat with a noose around its neck.