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Short Story 'The Cask Of Amontillado'
“The Cask of Amontillado”
In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, Montressor is malicious.
According to Montresor In the catacombs where Montresor was trying to get revenge, Montresor says to Fortunato “ we will go back; your health is precious”(133). Montresor was trying to reverse psychology to make him feel liked he cared but he didn’t. Because Montresor was going to kill him with impunity. Fortunato says to Montresor just as enter the catacombs “ I drink, he said to the buried that repose around us”, “ and I to your long life”(133). He was basically telling him in way giving clues but Fortunato was already starting to get drunk. And while him getting drunk is just giving him more leeway to kill him without him really knowing what’s
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