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cuhhrystal
cuhhrystal
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High School - 11th Grade

What did the narrator's wife often say about the cat that foreshadows what will later happen in the story ?

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Posted by cuhhrystal on Monday September 21, 2009 at 10:42 PM and tagged with cat, comprehension, foreshadow, the black cat.

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  1. luannw Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    Early in the short story, the narrator says that his wife often made references to the superstition that black cats were really witches in disguise.  The narrator says that his wife was somewhat superstitious, but her references to the cat and witches was done with humor and not real meaning.  Since the cat's image appears in the burned wall of the narrator's home and then an identical cat comes back into the narrator's life, there seems to indeed be something supernatural about the cat.

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    Posted by luannw on Tuesday September 22, 2009 at 4:15 AM