In his short story, “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe writes about perverseness and how everyone has a choice to determine an outcome. Edgar beings his story in a jail cell, where the narrator tells a story about a black cat and his abuse of alcoholism. The first complication that shows alcoholism taking over the narrator is the scene where he deliberately cut one of its cat's eyes after it nipped his hand. Because of this interaction, the cat feels terrified of the narrator every time he’s nearby. Then, the narrator hanged the cat from a tree because of the spirit of perverseness took over him. Later on in the story, the narrator meets a second cat at a bar that followed him home. In the climax of the story, his wife interfered the narrator
