The movie explores Puss's fear of death and finally overcoming it. To illustrate this, the movie personifies Death. We first see Death after Puss goes down to his ninth life, and proceeds to relaxes at the bar. Death is shown to be a wolf wearing a dark hood, who approached Puss with his sinister whistle. During this encounter, Death completely defeated Puss using his two sickles, causing Puss to flee in fear.