Can somebody explain to me Edgar Allan Poes the cask of amontillado?
Montresor is the protagonist, but an unreliable narrator, like all of Poe’s narrators. He believes that Fortunado has done him a thousand wrongs, but the last one is all he can take. So, preying on Fortunado’s vanity and pride in his wine knowledge, Montresor lures him into the catacombs/wine cellar beneath his house under the pretense that he needs Fortunado to authenticate some Amontillado for him, which is a type of sherry. Montresor uses reverse psychology throughout the story, like when he keeps telling Fortunado they should go back, and that he can have Luchresi authenticate the wine instead. So, it works, and once they reach a point deep enough where no one can hear Fortunado scream, Montresor pushes him into a recess in the wall (like a closet with no door) and walls him in using the materials he pre-hid under some bones, and the trowel he had in his coat (his one mistake was showing it to Fortunado earlier–but Fortunado, drunk and dressed as a clown, didn’t get it). He then t
