Just like millions of others in the world today, the character in this story chooses to
take his normal, seemingly tranquil life, and turn it upside down. He has a good wife
who loves him dearly, a good home, and his dearest friend, a black cat named Pluto. We
know he has to be making a fairly descant living because he has a servant, and he has the
means to go out drinking every night. So what is making him throw away his life in such
a horrific manner? The same thing that causes people to loose every thing, including their
sense-of-being, and even their sanity.....Alcohol. The story doesn't tell us why the
character started drinking, that's any ones guess. We really don't know very much at all
about the person accept the fact that he went insane.
Just like most Alcoholics, this character suffers from an issue called Displacement.
Displacement is where people put the blame on every thing and every one around them,
but never where it belongs. In this story the character puts the blame on a cat that ,in
his subconscious mind, he believes to be a witch. His thought pattern hasn't always been
this twisted, but alcohol has a funny way of turning reality into dilution. He considers
Pluto to be his most beloved pet, yet he cuts the cats eye out just because it bites him.
Truth be known, his alcoholic ways, his anger, and lack of judgment are the cause of
the bite. The notion that Pluto is a witch is absurd. At this point we see the man taken
over by a demon that will destroy anything in its path. As bad as he is here, he still has
not reached his lowest point. Next we see the quick temper and clouded judgment go
from spurts of irrational thought to pure insanity. He takes the animal that loves him so
dearly, and hangs him from a tree. He does this because he can not stand the animals love
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