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Who Is Fortunato Prideful
Why was Fortunato prideful? Every single person on this earth has something that they are prideful about; whether it is school, work, or a hobby, everyone has something to be prideful about. With pride always comes arrogance, which leads to any number of problems. Fortunato found this out the hard way unfortunately, his pride got in the way of his own survival. Pride can always get in the way of judgement among similar issues. Fortunato had to prove his knowledge of wine to Montresor; but Montresor had other plans for Fortunato down in those catacombs. Montresor deceived Fortunato by using his own pride to murder him.
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