His guilt follows him around as an imaginary cat looking just like Pluto. At the end of the story he kills his dear beloved, wife. Stated again, Poe had a genetical sickness to alcohol. With one sip Poe becomes violent, mean, and a liar. With the evidence from this story and poe’s sickness to alcohol, it's not clear that Poe wrote “The Black Cat’ when he was drunk. Another piece of evidence for the writing of “The Black Cat” is his life experiences. As stated before, his father walked out of the family, his mother died when he was 2, Poe was in indescribable poverty, he got kicked out of college due to his debts, he got expelled from an army school, West Point, Poe married his 13 year old cousin, Virginia that died a long while after. On top of the cake, he had no job to take care of Virginia. All of Poe’s life experiences and his sickness to alcohol might have inspired him to write the famous horror story, “The Black
His guilt follows him around as an imaginary cat looking just like Pluto. At the end of the story he kills his dear beloved, wife. Stated again, Poe had a genetical sickness to alcohol. With one sip Poe becomes violent, mean, and a liar. With the evidence from this story and poe’s sickness to alcohol, it's not clear that Poe wrote “The Black Cat’ when he was drunk. Another piece of evidence for the writing of “The Black Cat” is his life experiences. As stated before, his father walked out of the family, his mother died when he was 2, Poe was in indescribable poverty, he got kicked out of college due to his debts, he got expelled from an army school, West Point, Poe married his 13 year old cousin, Virginia that died a long while after. On top of the cake, he had no job to take care of Virginia. All of Poe’s life experiences and his sickness to alcohol might have inspired him to write the famous horror story, “The Black