Fortunato's Revenge

Montresor tells the story in detail of how he leads a man, Fortunato, to his death. Montresor repeatedly expresses the need to kill Fortunato because he has done something to insult him and he must pay for it with his life. Montresor tells readers early in the story that he is going to be lying to Fortunato’s face by acting one way, but thinking about killing him the whole time. He says "I continued, as was my wont, to smile in

The story initially starts off telling us the situation where Fortunato had wounded Montresor a “thousand” times. One day, Fortunato goes too far and insults Montresor ultimately resulting in Montresor vowing revenge. Montresor has to craft a perfect plan, for if Fortunato is able to revenge him in return then Montresor’s efforts will have been in vain.

     The plot of the story is a simple one. Montresor tales revenge on his friend Fortunato by luring him into the tunnels under the family estate. There he leads Fortunato into the depths of the catacombs where he buries him alive by walling him into a niche. The story is told in first person from the point of view of Montresor

Montresor is trying to lure Fortunato to his vaults by telling him that Luchresi can just come and taste the Amontillado because he knows best. He knows Fortunato will freak out by this statement, and then show Montresor that he is wrong in saying that. Indeed, this leads Fortunato down into the catacombs, just so he can prove Montresor wrong. That 's when Montresor will take his final step in his plan to end Fortunato. This event leads to the most suspenseful part in the short story. The reader doesn’t know what Montresor’s next step is going to be in his plan, along with what stupid move is Fortunato going to take to leading himself closer to his death.

It was about a week later and I was in the middle of tracking down Montresor, it took me a while because he was not in town, but when I finally found him I was able to communicate with him and call him down to the police station. When I first saw him I remember thinking he was a very strange man. About thirty-eight years old, he had a very strange sparkle in his arms. “Good afternoon Detective” he said with a grin and that crazy sparkle in his eyes. “Good afternoon sir. “ I replied. “Do you know why you are here?” “Well, I was informed it had to do with my good old friend Mr. Fortunato… ah such a shame what they did to him don’t you think?” “Yeah…” I said

This describes the scene in which Fortunato realizes Montresor had begun encasing him. Poe’s haunting images and details furthered the suspense.

1. When Fortunato has too much to drink and starts coughing from the Nitre, Montresor acts compassionate using reverse psychology, still leading him to his death. “Come, we will go back; your health is precious” (Poe 293).

    In the short story the characters do not have a massive change during the story and the plan of revenge was not that confident. Montresor wanted Fortunato to think he cared about his health

Fortunato. The story begins with Montressor’s vow of revenge. This is proven in the first sentence when Montressor says, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.” Montressor is a manipulative and vengeful person. These characteristics lead to the death of Fortunato. Through the words, acts, and thoughts of Montressor, one is able to see him carry out his plan for revenge.

Montresor sat alone feeling isolated and lonely in his empty house, and just thought about his life. He lost the love of his life, his career, success, and his wealth. Sitting on the floor in his dark, gloomy, disheveled living room, he then decided to make a change. He pounced up, ran to the kitchen and got rid of all the alcohol in his home and he declared he would never drink another day in his life! Alcohol was the one thing that ruined everything for him and he hated it and himself for giving it that power. Montresor began to withdraw from his friendship with Fortunato slightly because of his use of alcohol. It had been a while since they hung out and Fortunato wanted to introduce Montresor to the new girl he’d fallen in love with. Montresor heard a knock on his door, when he opened it he was shocked at what he had

Fortunato did not know what was happening and was taken by surprise when he figured out Montresor was going to kill him.In the story, Poe says“ It was succeeded.....over our wine --he! he! He!’ ”After being locked up, Fortunato’s drunkenness has worn off and he had started coming to his senses. Once he realizes what is happening, he plays off the situation as if it was a joke, Fortunato still shows fear for what will happen in his voice.

Later on the story Montresor is offended by Fortunato when the fortuned one tells him that he

If anybody close to Fortunato grew suspicious due to his missing it could be tied to excessive drinking during the festive season. Both Fortunato and Montresor dressed up during the festival as it seems fit. The jester taunting the executioner until taunting has begun to create an ego undaunted by Fortunato insults. Montresor and Fortunato head to a crypt full of the dead wandering the halls drinking of liquor recalling Montresor’s family. Conversations are thrown up into the air about Montresor’s family about what fame and size that it use to be. Again and again Montresor has offered an escape from the undead crypt due to his deteriorating health. Finally Montresor has captured Fortunato and bound him to die. At the beginning Montresor seems like he is telling someone of his

     Finally, they reach the end on the catacombs and the Amontillado is near. Then, suddenly Montressor throws Fortunato and fettered him on the wall in a little aperture. He Builds a crypt with a trowel and masonry slowly circumscribing him. Fortunato will slowly suffocate and die. He is almost done laying the stones when Fortunato begs him to let him out and lets him know that the joke was very good but Montressor is not joking. He lays the last block and clamored can be heard through the walls. Slowly the noise died down and Montressor absconded to let Fortunato repose. Of course, then Fortunato perceived what he had done.

He is surprised to find the real Amontillado, but his astonishment does not last long. He is really frightened by Montresor’s behavior. First, he regains his consciousness completely and gives “a low moaning cry”. When he finds out that Montresor intends to kill me, he is terrified and bursts out “a succession of loud and shrill screams”. Fortunato is so terrified, helpless and desperate that he has a mental breakdown and becomes insane.