Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story. Which quotation from "The Black Cat" best supports the inference that even though the narrator explains how the image of the cat appears after the fire, he does not wholly believe it? “When I first beheld this apparition—for I could scarcely regard it as less—my wonder and my terror were extreme.” “Although I thus readily accounted to my reason,…it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy.” “For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat;…” “I went so far as to regret the loss of the animal,…”

Answer 1

“Although I thus readily accounted to my reason,…it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy.”

Answer 2

hi! what shows that he can hardly believe how the fat appears after the fire is the first one.

“...I could scarcely regard it as less—my wonder and my terror were extreme.” this shows that he couldn’t really think straight and was in shock, which could make him not believe it.

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