What is the plot of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe? Please describe the exposition, the rising action the climax, the falling action, and the...

- The narrator
is presumably in jail and awaiting to be executed. He sets the tone and mood of the novel with
his anxious talk, where he says that something terrible has happened, and also that something
has terrified him.

The conflict of the story is basically that the narrator
has a massive drinking problem. The way that this is conveyed is when he explains that, after
getting his pet- a black cat named Pluto- he had developed a tendency to drink heavily. As a
result, he is abusing his pets and even his wife, but not Pluto--at least not yet

[€¦] through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance [I] had
(I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse.

The rising event, which is what will lead to the(also known as the
complication) occurs when, during one of the many fits of temporary madness that the narrator
endures after drinking, he picks on Pluto.

My original
soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence,
gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame

He first
tortures him by taking off its eye. Then he hangs the cat. This horrible scene sets the scenario
for something even more terrible, as now it is clear that the narrator has lost control of
himself and, eventually, of his fate.

The climax then occurs shortly after
this, because "something" or "someone" set the narrator's house on fire.
This means that all of the belongings of the family are also burned and they all become
destitute. This could be seen as the afterlife revenge of Pluto, but we do not know that
yet.

The falling action, leading to the finalcomes with the entrance of
another black cat to the story. We do not know if this is a Pluto evil comeback. We only know
that this further complicates the situation for the narrator, as now he is being literally
haunted by a living being.

The denouement is the murder of the wife. The
narrator, who has clearly lost his mind had not yet told why he was in jail in the first place.
Now we know that, during one of his persecution moments he kills his wife (he intended to kill
the cat) with an ax and so he hides the body. The narrator confesses that he does not care so
long as the black cat does not return. 

The conclusion is that he is found
out and the crime is exposed because the sounds of a meowing cat were heard coming from the
wall. It could be considered divine justice or perhaps part of the insanity of the narrator.
That is up to the reader to figure out.