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What does the narrator do to the first cat after it bites him on the hand? in "The Black Cat"

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When the narrator returns home, intoxicated, enraged by the cat biting his hand, he uses a pen-knife to viciously remove the cats eye.
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Answer:

In "The Black Cat" the narrator cut out one of the eyes of the cat after it bites him on the hand.

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The narrator in the story "The Black Cat" becomes irritated and furious when he finds that he cat, Pluto, was also avoiding him. In return to this, he cut Pluto's one eye by his pen-knife. Later, the narrator is seen to become more heinous and aggressive towards the cat as he hanged him on the tree.

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