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and Fortunato contrast each other sharply. In the character of Montresor, you have someone who
thinks a lot. Montresor also seems exceedingly wise. When you come to the character of
Fortunato, the reader gets an impression of him as a loud buffoon, someone who wants merely to
have a good time and drink wine. But it seems as if there is something a little deeper than that.
The character Montresor is intelligent and cunning to an extreme. The name Montresor
may have been Poe's way of saying that he was a monster. Montresor said that he had survived a
thousand insults at the hands of Fortunato, yet the most recent atta
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may have laughed at what Fortunato had said instead of taken it as an insult. The man was a wine connoisseur
which suggests that he was a heavy drinker in order to get such a taste for wine. When he made the jest towards Montresor which was taken
as an insult, he was probably drunk and merely making a joke. ck made him angry enough to
kill him. If Montresor would have
confronted Fortunato about the "insult" Fortunato may have said that in fact it was not meant to
be an insult, bet instead he was merely drunk. Or if Fortunato was
more like Montresor, he may have never made the remark that Montresor took for an insult on
account of not wanting to offend him. If the characters would have been more alike in personality there probably
would not have been a death. Never once did he reveal any
distaste towards Fortunato in order that he would catch him off guard. This is evident by the fact
that neither he nor Fortunato show any signs of distaste towards each other in their speech with
one another on the walk down the catacombs. the very fact that he was in a jester's
outfit suggests that he was an active participant in the carnival. Montresor went about killing him in a quiet way though. Fortunato
seemed to be a character who was the life of the party. With no guilt, there was no
chance of him ever getting caught by stumbling into a confession.
These two characters were so sharply contrast of each other that it is no wonder that one
murdered the other. The way Montresor tells of the well laid plan he
laid for Fortunato shows his great intelligence.
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