The Black Cat may very well be seen as a study in human
psychology because the main character is clearly a psychopath. At first you can see how
the man is kind, always given to service to others, a good family man, and he is
especially loving to his black cat, Pluto.
The moment when
he begins to change his attitude it seems as if all the goodness that he had in the
beginning of the story had been all part of his psychopath behavior, since he did a
complete turn and placed all his anger towards the cat until he killed
him.
Then came the psychosis and paranoia of him thinking
that the cat was chasing him, until the man, himself died under mysterious circumstances
which suggest that the cat did get back at him after
all.
However, it is the slow decay of his kindness, and his
turn for the worst what makes one wonder about his actual mental state and makes one
suppose that he was indeed totally psycho.
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