The narrator is telling his story like a doomed man, flashing back to the beginning. He was a peculiar boy, particularly fond of animals. He married young and his wife made sure they had lots of animals, especially a particularly large black cat called Pluto. The narrator confesses that he is an alcoholic, and this made him violent towards everyone - his wife and his pets, but he was able to keep himself from abusing Pluto.
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One night, in a drunken stupor, the narrator thinks Pluto is avoiding him, so he catches him and cuts out one of his eyes. He is ashamed in the present of his action, but at the time, his shame only lasted a short while. Pluto, of course, avoided the narrator and the narrator started to get angry about it.
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The narrator is so angry at Pluto's evasion that one day he decides to hang him from a tree. Later that night, the narrator's entire house burns down. The next day, the narrator visits the ruins of the house and finds on the standing wall a picture of a cat with a rope around its neck. The narrator explains this, but is still shaken. He starts looking for a new cat, and finds a big black one with a white spot on its chest in one of the taverns he frequents.
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The cat follows the narrator home. The cat loves the narrator, and because of his guilt over past actions, the narrator begins to hate the cat. The cat is also missing an eye, like Pluto. The more the narrator avoids the cat, the more it follows him. The point on its chest begins to resemble a gallows, frightening the narrator. One day, on the way to the cellar, the cat puts the narrator on the stairs and he raises an axe to kill him; he is stopped by his wife, and in a rage, he kills her with the axe.
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The narrator traps his wife inside the basement wall. The cat seems to have escaped, and the narrator sleeps peacefully for the first time in a long time. Three or four days pass, and the police have finally arrived to search the premises. The narrator, however, is unbothered because he knows he will never find his wife.
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As the police are about to leave the basement and the premises for good, the narrator takes his cane and raps on the cellar wall to brag about the construction of the house. At that moment, a wailing and screaming comes from behind the plaster. The police open the wall and find the narrator's wife, along with the black and white cat, whom the narrator accidentally surrounded his body with.