Drinking is not the best choice. When someone drinks alcohol they act like someone else, just like in the story. “Suddenly, I was not myself anymore. Someone else was in my body: someone evil, and mad with drink” (Poe1). “Often he tried to jump on my knees. I want to murder him when he did this, but I did not” (Poe 2). This all connects to the claim because it is about his drinking problem. The first support means that he is not himself when he is drunk. He said that he’s someone else. The second example is saying that he wanted to murder his cat but he did not for some reason. It was because at that time he was not …show more content…
The reason is because the cat is black which means bad luck. The cat’s name is Pluto and in Greek mythology Pluto is the God of the underworld. .The drinking claim is stronger than the claim of the cat. In the story Poe talks more about the narrator’s drinking, and gives more to do with the drinking than the cat. He talks about the how when he drinks he is more of a different person than when he is silber. Drinking is a symbol in Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Black Cat”. The drinking makes the narrator do certain actions that he does not want to do. Now that he has killed not just one but two living things ( His wife and cat Poe does not say much of the narrator's wife ) in the story the readers are asking one question that they want to know. One of the techniques is that use sapen to make the reads wonder what is going to happen if saters drinking again. What is he doing now? Is he still drinking or is he not out of jail