As I hung my cat from the tree I didn't know who I was or what I was doing. (Poe, Edgar Allen) It is clear that the narrator in The Black Cat has psychopathic tendencies because he shows poor behavior control, need for stimulation and pathological lying. ("Psychopath")
The ways he shows poor behavior control is when the cat wanted some attention he cut out his eyeball. Another example of poor behavior control is he was trying to kill the second cat because it was walking around his feet, his wife stopped him and he killed her. He felt relief when the second cat disappeared after his wife died as he thought the cat was evil and was sending him messages meaning the cats white splotch on his breast was turning into gallows and so he thought
The ways he shows poor behavior control is when the cat wanted some attention he cut out his eyeball. Another example of poor behavior control is he was trying to kill the second cat because it was walking around his feet, his wife stopped him and he killed her. He felt relief when the second cat disappeared after his wife died as he thought the cat was evil and was sending him messages meaning the cats white splotch on his breast was turning into gallows and so he thought