Their, he encourages Roderick to read and play music, activities that lift him out of his depression because of Madeline’s illness.
Narrator of 'The Fall of the House of Usher': A friend of Roderick Usher from their schooldays, the narrator visits Roderick’s house after hearing unsettling news that his friend needs to be comforted. The cat is accidentally buried alive with the murdered wife, and its meowing draws the police to this hiding spot. The narrator assumes Pluto to have supernatural powers and, eventually, he finds a cat that looks similar and becomes afraid that this cat is Pluto returned from the grave to haunt him when his wife tries to stop him from slicing the second Pluto with an ax, he slices her instead. Later, he hangs the cat from a tree by the neck, although his house burns down soon after. Although he claimed to love Pluto at first, one day he stabs a penknife into the cat’s eye after returning home in a drunken stupor.
Pluto: The black cat so despised by the Narrator. He dies the morning after telling the tale. He drinks alcohol heavily, but he blames the black cat for what has happened, rather than himself he owns his own house and, as such, appears to be a fairly wealthy man. Narrator of 'The Black Cat': Claiming himself to be an animal lover, his story is a confession of how he came to murder his wife because of a cat.
Stories of Edgar Allan Poe Major Characters
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