As the narrator states within the first few paragraphs of the story, he is indeed not mad, or crazed, but that this is a collection of mere, normal, everyday events. The cat “made him do it” but, readers know that it is the narrator's mental instability which inevitably leads to his own downfall. Pluto, the first cat mentioned in the story, is inevitably wronged when the narrator “[T]ook from my waistcoat a pen-knife… and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!” (Poe 497). The poor creature was doing nothing, just simply minding its own when the narrator seizes the cat up, and in getting a reaction that displeases him, the narrator continues on to cut the unfortunate animals eye out! But that was not his fault, oh no, simply the
