a torrid rage the narrator split his wife's head open with the ax. To cover up this deed he placed the body of his wife in one of his basement walls.
             He apparently got away with it because when the police came to search the house they didn't find anything at first. Then the last piece of irony occurred. The narrator and the police heard a crying noise from inside the wall. When the police dug the wall open the corpse fell out with the cat lying on it. The cat was walled up with the corpse and was making the crying sound that alerted the police. The irony is that the cat crying showed the police of the crime that was committed. In a way this seems like revenge for the narrator killing the other black cat.
             An important symbol in "The Black Cat" was the color of the cat. Black represents emptiness and hopelessness, just like the narrator's poverty and alcohol filled life. Once the narrator lost his love for animals he lost what made him happy, most likely the only thing that made him happy. When he turned on them it
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