In poe's "the black cat," the narrator's senseless violence supports the theme that all people have a wicked side. which passage from the story best shows this? a. my entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and i resigned myself thenceforward to despair. b.. . the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber. c. the cat followed me down the steep stairs, and, nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me into madness. d.. . hung it because i knew that it had loved me, and because i felt it had given me no reason of offence . .