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, …showed first 75 words of 415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 415 total…mirror image or twin..his wife. They both shared the same qualities...they loved animals...and the man was trying to rid himself of these similarities by mutilating the cat, to prove himself as the other. I am suggesting that both readings are correct. Poe's stories are full of pyschoanalytical content, and there is no one true reading. There are probably a myriad of other readings available as well...but these are all I covered.