Edgar Poe

irony in the words spoken by Montressor. As a reader these passages puzzled me and gave me a difficult time understanding the story. His use of irony was new to me and I didn’t understand some of the things he was saying in the story. In this essay I will discuss some of the passages that irony was used in which I had a hard time understanding.

In the beginning of the story when Montressor meets Fortunato he says, “ My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met” (pg. 220). He made it seem like he was happy to see him, because he asked him to taste the wine. This was just a cover up to go through with his plan. This puzzled me beca

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The last passage that puzzled me is when he told Fortunato. But all this come to light in at the end of the story when u find out this was just apart of his plan. But this was just the plan to get Fortunato full trust and make him want to go taste the wine. This also confused me as a reader, because in the beginning of the story he said Fortunato weakness was his pride knowing wine. But after reading the story over again I understood it more. As I read the story I learned that he said this so that Fortunato would not suspect anything.

Around the same time he first met him he told Fortunato, “My friend no: I will not impose upon your good nature” (pg. He used his weakness for the love of tasting wine to lure him for his plan to get revenge. Montressor’s clever way of luring Fortunato down so he could go through with his plan and acting like he didn’t want him to come was great use of irony to make the me as an reader think he one thing. Poe’s use of irony was what made this story so puzzling.

This story was the most confusing story I ever read that was not a mystery. This made me think that he was maybe changing his mind about what he was about to do. It wasn’t until reading the full story I realized what he was truly doing.

Common topics in this essay:
Cask Amontillado, beginning story, poes irony, told fortunato, taste wine, pg 220, passage puzzled, reading story,

Approximate Word count = 476
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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