Meet the Cast
The Narrator
The narrator has major issues. This unnamed character is an abusive bully and a murderer. He made home a living hell for his wife, pets, and himself. He's writing to us from his prison cell, on the...
The Narrator's Wife
The brief outline the narrator provides us of his wife suggests that she is kind, giving, loyal, and even heroic at the end. The narrator says she has "in a high degree, that humanity of feeling wh...
Pluto
Pluto is fine specimen of a cat. All black, large, fuzzy, and "and sagacious to an astonishing degree" (4). (Sagacious is a cool word to know. It means extremely wise, intelligent, and perceptive.)...
The Second Cat
The second black cat looks almost exactly like Pluto. He's big, black, and missing an eye. The only difference is the white spot. The spot starts off innocently enough, but then grows into an image...
The Policemen
Like the policeman in the end of " The Tell-Tale-Heart," these policeman are generic characters, without defining characteristics, other than the fact that they are policeman. Like the police in "T...