What Goes Around Comes Around. Speaks of "The Black Cat," by Edgar Allan Poe

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…believed he was free from the evil of madness. Poe ends the story after utilizing every inch of suspension of disbelief the reader can afford. He sums up the plot of the story when he writes "the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman," (85) implying that the cat had induced the same torture on him that he had brought on the first cat.