"The Black Cat" Soriatic Questions

"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe

Q: What did the second cat have on it's breast?
A: The second cat had a white spot on its breast among all of the black.
"Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast" (Poe 8).

Q: Why does the narrator poke out the first cats eye?
A: The narrator was abusing alcohol and took out the cats eye out of anger.
"One night, returning home, much intoxicated...  I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!" (Poe 5).

Q: How would someone today try to dispose of a body of someone they have just murdered?
A: If someone murdered another human today they would try to dispose of the body with a fire.
"At one period I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire" (Poe 11).

Q: Do people still try to hide their imperfections within the security of their home?
A: People like to use the security of their home to hide their imperfections because no one knows their home better than themselves.
"I determined to wall it up in the cellar" (Poe 12).

Q: Does the narrator feel any remorse for the horrible crime he has committed?
A: The narrator does feel a little remorse for killing his wife, but he was more remorse for killing the first cat.
"Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever" (Poe 13).