Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this story. which quotation from "the black cat" best supports the inference that the cat represents the narrator's sense of guilt? "…to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate night-mare that i had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart! " "i had so much of my old heart left, as to be at first grieved by this evident dislike on the part of a creature which had once so loved me." "for months i could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat; and, during this period, there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse." " wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise."