SUBJECT: Paper 1 Analysis of a Short Story DATE: 10/05/1999 THE BLACK CAT What can the color black symbolize? Does it symbolize the death, the devil or alcohol? I think the black cat symbolizes all of these things. The black cat symbolizes the death because the second cat's white part was changing by the time, and there appeared the gallows. I think he has two characters; one of these is a good man and the other one …showed first 75 words of 606 total…

…showed last 75 words of 606 total…he had done. He wants people to believe that he is not a bad man originally. He says: 'In their consequences, these events have terrified, have tortured, have destroyed me'. He sees the things that he remembers or the things that only he imagines. Maybe he is trying to find some reasons that made him to do these bad things and maybe all of these are some imaginations that he saw when he was alcoholic.