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Throughout the story "The Black Cat," how does the narrator reveal his guilt for his deeds?

"The Black Cat" is a story which reveals the gradual heightening of guilt that stems from one's actions and its effect on the human psyche. At the beginning of the book, the narrator relates the story of his descent into evildoing for the sake of evil. Seemingly without reason, other than the belief that the cat has been avoiding his fits of rage, he first gouges out the cat's eye and then proceeds to hang the cat from a tree in his yard. After that, he begins seeing strange apparitions everywhere, which remind him of the cat. First, he sees an impression of the cat hanging on the one remaining wall of his house after it burns to the ground. Then, he sees a black cat perched upon a barrel of alcohol. The cat seems to be haunting him, but it is demonstrative of the feeling that one has after one has committed an evil deed; it is difficult, if not impossible, to completely escape the fear that something will happen to the person who has committed the evil deed. He takes the new cat home and eventually discovers that the white spot on the cat has taken on the shape of the gallows, a place where one is hung. Eventually, his anger gets to be so great that he kills his wife, and his guilt becomes so great that he ends up giving himself away to the police when they come to search his house. Throughout the story, Poe combines the supernatural with the rational and logical, and the lines become somewhat blurred. When one is plagued with guilt, one has a difficult time believing that certain occurrences are just coincidences and not, in fact, divine punishment. 

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