The short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, can be compared
             and contrasted to the short story A Rose for Emily by Faulkner. In both of these stories
             the main characters get away with a planned murder. Emily, in A Rose for Emily, murders
             her companion, Homer Barron. She believes that as long as he is dead he can be forever
             hers. She keeps him in her bed along side of her, despite the rotting body she still keeps
             his death to herself. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor feels that his friend
             Fortunado, has insulted him, and so he seeks revenge against him. He leads Fortunado
             into the catacombs and leaves him there in chains behind a wall to die. The difference in
             these two murderers is that Emily killed to keep someone whom she loved with her
             forever, Montressor killed for revenge and to get rid of Fortunado.
             Emily was a woman who in her earlier years was under severe control of her
             father. She was forbidden to go out with boys and had very strict rules. Emily had always
             wanted to be free, and to have a husband, and then when she got one, she killed him in
             fear of losing him. Her father's restrictions on her may have affected her as a woman.
             She thought she was doing the right thing in keeping Homer Barron dead in her bad,
             sleeping next to her. Montressor, felt insulted by his friend Fortunado, so he felt he had to
             get revenge on him, and by taking his life he felt no mercy. His motive was clearly
             revenge, to seek revenge he tricked his friend into believing that there was Amontillado
             there, when he arrived deep into the catacombs he chained him to a wall, a built a wall
             around him, leaving him there to die. The difference between these two murders are the
             motives, and the characters reactions.
             "I want Arsenic", Emily said as she shopped for a poison to kill Homer Barron.
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