The Cast Of Amontillado

This was a good story in my opinion. I enjoyed the suspense that it gave to the reader, but also all of the irony that went along with it. I kept you wondering what was going to happen next. As the story began the narrator started out with a very meaningful phrase, that he had been injured a thousand times, but when he was insulted this one time he was out to revenge it. This made me wonder what type of person this is. As was brought up in class it made me think he was some sort of socio path. I have no reason to believe he was close to being normal, or if he was, he was letting any sticks and stones break his bones, but the words harmed him terribly, as the old child adage goes.

As the story continues to unfold, and Montresor gets Fortunato from the carnival where he has been having quite a good time, and is dressed in his Jester outfit, you again start to wonder what is going to happen after he tell Fortunato that he has gotten a pipe of the Amontillado. It continues to unfold, and the reach the cellar, where again the irony comes into play when Fortunato comes down with a terrible cough and Montresor being the nice guy that he is offers him to turn back and go back to top. Fortunato replys and says that it will take more than a cough or a common cold to kill him. Which turns out to be very ironic when he is right, he will die of a slow death, something very much more than the common cold.

The last notable thing that caught my interest when reading this story was when Fortunato asked Montresor if he was a mason. Which when he asked he was referring to the Mason brotherhood. But Montresor being the smart intellectual man that he was pulls out a trough that will be in essence the murder weapon of Fortunato. These few things plus a few others were what made this short piece of literature interesting to me. It kept me always asking what was going to come next, which made it all the more fun to read.