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In Poe’s “The Black Cat�, what is the significance of the black cat?

The black cat has always been considered a symbol of bad luck and evil, and in this story the cat seems to represent the bad luck present in the narrators life. The cat does not seem to be responsible for the bad luck, but is always present when things go wrong, and a lot of time is on the receiving end of this bad luck.
The first mention of the black cat in the short story is when the narrator's wife noticed his partiality for domestic pets and "lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind", which includes a black cat. In the beginning, the narrator describes the cat as a "large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to a degree". When he describes the cat in this way, the narrator gave us his view of the cat as an everyday, normal household cat that people who have had an encounter with cats can feel a real connection to. Even though some people might have the......

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