Amelia's Black Cat Picture

While this picture is beyond creepy, is is an excellent portrayal of the protagonist walling "the monster up within the tomb" (Poe 70). Upon the corpse's head, "with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder" (Poe 70). The black cat was screeching, leading the police to the wife's body. The protagonist is trying to escape and put some distance between himself and the repressed emotions of shame and hatred he has for who he is, but the police are stopping him, preventing him from ignoring these feelings.