Question

In an attempt to explain to himself how the shape of the murdered cat could have appeared on his burnt bedroom wall and how the cat's corpse is missing from the tree in his yard, the narrator decides that ___________.

Answer 1

someone must have tossed it through the window to wake him up during the fire.

Answer 2

The best answer for this statement would be:

That the narrator had told himself that the image of the black cat is of superstition, and adding some scientific and ridiculous logical explanation into it. This is because the narrator ignores his murderous tendencies and malicious character which makes his pride not see the moral of bad that he is doing.