The Black Cat IF Outline
X1. Writing before my execution
2. Gentle personality and love for animals
3. Marriage and pets
4. Description of Pluto, wife's superstition
5. My care for P.
6. Personality change from alcohol addiction, abuse of wife, pets,
and finally P.
7. I gouge out P's eye
8. Feeling of horror but feeble remorse
9. I hang and kill P. out of a spirit of perverseness
10. Destructuion of wealth in house fire
11. Discovery of figure of cat imprinted on last standing wall
12. Natural explanation of cat figure
13. Half-sentiment of pseudo-remorse, seek to replace cat
14. Black Cat with White Splotch (BCWS) appears in tavern
15. BCWS follows me home and settles in
16. I come to dislike BCWS
17. Discover BCWS is missing eye like P.
18. BCWS affection for me increases with my dislike of it
19. My dread of BCWS; BCWS splotch resolves to shape of gallows
20. I can no longer rest because of BCWS's constant presence
21. I abandon myself to evil thoughts, abuse wife
22. BCWS almost trips me on cellar stairs; in rage I attempt to kill
it with axe; wife intervenes; I kill wife
23. I decide to conceal the body inside cellar wall
24. Conceal body in hollow in wall and replaster
25. I look for BCWS to kill it, but am unable to find it; feeling of
relief
26. Happiness at BCWS's departure greater than guilt for wife's murder
27. Police search cellar but find nothing
28. As police are about to leave, I comment on the walls' solid
construction and tap the spot where body is concealed
29. Tap answered by cry from behind wall
30. Police open the hole in the wall, revealing wife's corpse and
BCWS still alive after being walled up with the corpse.
