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How Does Montresor Characterize Fortunato

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Montresor uses Fortunato's pride, passion and past actions to justify his revenge on Fortunato. Fortunato’s passion is wine. He can tell what type of wine it is just by smelling/tasting it. In the past Fortunato has bullied Montresor and ever since Montresor has wanted revenge. So he tells Fortunato that he is going to ask somebody else to identify this wine for him. Fortunato refuses to let her identify this wine for Montresor. So he begins to tell Montresor that she doesn’t know what she is talking about. Montresor then lets Fortunato to come down to the catacombs and taste this certain wine for him. So on the way Montresor keeps handing Fortunato different types of wines to make sure that he is drunk and keep Fortunato interested. When

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