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Which quotation from "The Black Cat" best supports the inference that the narrator feels he deserves to be punished for his cruelty?

A.) “I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame.“

B.)“The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and, nearly throwing me headlong, exasperated me to madness.”

C.) “With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase..”

D.) “...I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin…even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.”

Quotation from "The Black Cat" best supports the inference that the narrator feels he deserves to be punished for his cruelty is I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin…even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.”Thus the correct answer is D.

What is a quotation?

A quotation refers to a phrase or statement which is copied exactly the same as it is written somewhere else by the original author. Here the quotation is taken from the story "Black Cat"

"The Black Cat" story highlights an addict who is pushed by his alcoholism where his cat is killed after being mistreated. Then a stray cat that looks similar to the cat he killed, save for an execution mark and follows him home, which encourages him to act in a still more brutal manner.

The narrator feels that he deserves to be punished for the cruelty as he feels that whatever he did is a sin he is guilty as he killed his cat, he does even not deserve any kind of mercy.

Therefore, option D is appropriate.

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