He suddenly starts to become more moody and "ill tempered." (pg 546, 6) He is violent and rude towards everyone including his wife, his pets and eventually Pluto, his cat. His violence grows so much that he cuts out Pluto's eye and eventually ends up hanging him. This is a major turn in the character and in the story. However, it is not the climax of the story. After killing Pluto, another cat enters the story, and with this cat, the main character builds up all his violence, grief and dread. The climax of the story happens when the main character tries to kill the new cat, and his wife stops him. In a fury of rage he murders his wife: "I aimed a blow at the animal which, if course, would have proved instantly fatal had it descended as I wished. But this blow was arrested by the hand of my wife. Goaded by the interference, into a rage more demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain." (pg. 549, 23) After this, the main character buries his dead wife in the cellar wall and walks away with no remorse.
The resolution, or latently put, the ending, follows the climax. Having no remorse or thoughts about the crime he had committed, he willing goes with the police while they investigate his wife's disappearance. Just when the police are satisfied that his wife is no where to be found in the premises, he starts to tell the police how well of a constructed house it was. While doing this he wraps on the cellar wall with his cane. In doing this there is a cry that comes from behind the wall. The reader then realizes that he had accidentally buried the second cat in the wall with his murdered wife, thus the cat gave him away and uncovered his wife's tomb.
The second element is Character. Character is defined as an extended verbal representation of a human being, the inner self that determines thought, speech, and behavior. Poe's main character in "The Black Cat," is a round character.
