InThe Cask of Amontillado? by Edgar Allan Poe, the setting is a crucial ingredient of the story describing a murder committed by Montresor. The setting is always shifting from one location to another and is not fully detailed; the reader completes the description with his imagination, scaring himself even more. The setting echoes Montresor's state of mind. The murky ambiance reflects Montresor's vengeful guise and the architecture symbolises his dark and devious mind.
             First of all, the story's setting is dark and sinister, which reinforces Montresor's malevolent persona. Montresor masterminds a plan to get revenge at Fortunato: to bait, hook, reel him in, and finish him off. He uses the Amontillado wine, playing on Fortunato's arrogance, to bait him. At this moment he needs to be deceitful. This treachery is clearly illustrated by the setting:It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season? (229). At this instant, Montresor himself is crepuscular and false-hearted, since he has to convince Fortunato that they are friends, when in fact Montresor wants to kill him. Adding to the ambiance, in the middle of the story, in the catacombs, is their encounter with nitre that hangs from the walls like a spider web.
             It is farther on,? said I;but observe the white webwork which gleams from these cavern walls.?
             He turned toward me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication.
             ?Come,? I said, with decision,we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchesi-? (230)
             In this part, Montresor entangles, hooks, Fortunato and
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