1. Discuss the significance of the following quote: "There is something unselfish and self - sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of man."
Answer: he keeps on mistreating the cat by maltreating him, but he still loves him a lot.
2. What is the significance of the cat's name, Pluto?
Answer: the cat was small, black, and coldblooded.
3. Why did the narrator initially restrain himself from maltreating the cat while maltreating other animals?
Answer: he couldn't control himself from being mad at himself all the time.
4. Why does he eventually mistreat the cat?
Answer: the cat keeps on coming to his room all the time, and scares him to death.
5. Describe the narrator's feelings after abusing the cat. Why is that significant?
Answer: He had no feelings for him. Doesn't know what he was doing with himself. I think that it is pure madness for what he actuallt did to himself, and his pets.
6. How does the narrator define "perverseness"? Do you agree with his definition? Do you agree that it is human nature?
Answer: the evil stuff that goes in his head. Not really. No i do not agree.
7. Discuss the significance of the following quote: " I hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offense; because I knew that in doing so I was committind a sin."
Answer: he's completely out of his mind, and dillusionally twisted to hide his own guilt for killing his pets that he loved the most.
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