The Black Cat Psychopath

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The narrator is a phsycopath from the Black Cat,these are the reasons why he is a physcopath.
The narrator of The Black Cat has done many things to make himself physcopath.
For instance h took his first cats eye out that he loved so much. The first reason he took the cats eye out is because he was drunk and the cat bit the narrators hand. Since the narrator was drunk he got really mad and took his pen knife and cut the cats eye out. After that he killed his cat.Thats one reason why the narrator is a physcopath.

The second reason the narrator is a physcopath is because he killed his own wife just so he can kill the second cat that he kept avoiding. He grabbed his axe and slaughtered her brain. After that he didnt even care about

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