TheBlackCat读后感

H a v e a P o s i t i v e A t t i t u d e i n L i f e

After reading this story, I really shocked by what the man had done. He is a murderer who cruelly killed a black cat loved by his wife, then brutishly murdered his wife instead of his second cat, and hid her carcass in the wall. I was confused with the behavior of the man who did all that damn things.

I think this man is abnormal, and it is terrible to live with such a person who has something wrong with his mind. I just wonder how can once a righteous and kind man turned out to be so merciless and why the author wanted to show the ugly aspect of human being.

After doing some reading about the author, I found the main character in the story is almost the duplicate of author himself; he expressed his own feelings and thoughts through writing. The author lost his parents when he was very young, and he lacked

of warm and parental care and sense of security during childhood. What’s more, there’s nobody for him to confess his sufferings and unhappiness, what he could do is to immerse him in alcohol to escape from the anguish.

So the reasons were clear for the conversion of the man’s personality. Firstly, is the outside environment: He was always haunting in the bar and was alcoholic, which shows that his life is aimless and disordered. As a result, he was under control of alcohol.

Though the surroundings are vital to one’s character development, but it’s not all. In the story, every time when the man did evil things, he blamed them on the alcohol and others. In my perspective, it was just his excuse to avoid the responsibility. As a human, you can’t give way to the madness; instead, you can have strong will to overcome it.

Secondly, plenty of negative emotions such as jealousy, violence, irritation make the man envies to the black cat that was loved by his wife and he is violent and angry to the cat in that the cat was so close to the man that the man felt troublesome. When you have such complicated psychology, the most effective and useful way is to talk with your friends or relatives, but not bury deeply in heart, which will later result in vicious cycle.

In a word, both inside and outside reasons lead the man to the depth of sin. He seemed accustomed to perform this crime that he had not felt shameful. So after killing the first cat, he acquired some kinds of satisfaction, which later made him tend to abuse things that he didn’t like and eventually killed his wife.

So I draw a conclusion from this story: you should find ways to release your dissatisfactions encountered in lif e; don’t find any excuse s to get you away from punishing or it will lead you to crime abyss. Though environment is influential to one’s mood, you should keep a positive and opportunistic attitude toward life. Only in this way, you can drive all the devils away and lead a cozy and comfortable life.