“I may say an excellently well constructed house. These walls — are you going, gentlemen? — these walls are solidly put together”;
Does he want to get caught or is this a cocky show to say "I've gotten away with it"?
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- Sep 2019
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My happiness was supreme!
Shows how heavy his original murder of Pluto weighed on him; he barely even cares about his late wife, but the cat being gone made him so happy.
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My next step was to look for the beast which had been the cause of so much wretchedness
Speaks so much to the narrators abusive and alcoholic nature to place the blame on the cat.
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to the task of concealing the body
Does he feel no grief for what he has done? He just murdered a human being, let alone his wife?!
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She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan.
Messed. Up.
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which constituted the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed.
Further proof to my prediction that this new cat is the ghost of Pluto!
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dread of physical evil
Interesting how he admits he feels nothing preventing him from physically hurting the cat
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I brought it home, that, like Pluto, it also had been deprived of one of its eyes.
Is this cat the ghost of Pluto?
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splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast.
I predict this white spot connects back to the murder of Pluto.
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reposing upon the head of one of the immense hogsheads of Gin, or of Rum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment.
All the details keep coming back to emphasize the fact that the narrator is an alcoholic.
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against which had rested the head of my bed.
I predict there is a significance with his bed in the house, with the emphasis on this wall behind the headboard and the flames waking him by burning the bed curtains.
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cool blood
Odd word choice in the sense that you often see authors use phrases like "blood was boiling" which implies often irrational thought and action. "Cool blood" makes it sound like the decision to hang his cat was made level headed.
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Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not?
This is great insight by Poe on the confusing/off qualities of human nature.
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PERVERSENESS
I like the use of thiw word instead of a simpler one such as evil. Also, the choice to make it capitalized puzzles me. Is there something additional implied with this word?
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