![]() ![]() ![]() Later, he follows Fortunato, whose jester’s balls wander grotesquely in a funeral atmosphere through underground passages with stacks of skeletons alternate with wine barrels (Poe, 2020). Montresor takes him to his empty palace and leads him into his relatives’ catacombs to drink together. He consults Fortunato, who is proud to be a wine specialist, and adds that he will go to Luchesi because Fortunato does not have free time.īeing aware of the ego of his prey, Montresor kissed him, claiming that Luchesi’s taste is as good as Fortunato’s, thus contending him and making him a fool (Poe, 2020). Montresor tells him that he has bought an Amontillado wine pipe, but he is not confident that he got the genuine one. To this end, Montresor waits for a supreme madness season of carnival – when Fortunato is especially weak – which was already half drifted and dressed as a chest. There has to be great revenge for Fortunato to be utterly conscious of anything happening to him and to be detected permanently by Montresor (Poe, 2020). The perpetrator was Fortunato, who, according to the narrator, brought him a thousand wounds that he sustained patiently, but he swore a vengeance when Fortunato dared to taunt him (Poe, 2020). The brief narrative of the story is first told by an Italian courtesan who makes the reader feel confounded by giving them confidence in the morbid story of revenge. ![]()
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