In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado, " there are many examples of
             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 because when the story first started he discussed how he disliked Fortunato. It wasn't until reading the full story I realized what he was truly doing. He did this to help secure his plan to get what he would call revenge own Fortunato.
             Around the same time he first met him he told Fortunato, "My friend no: I will not impose upon your good nature" (pg. 220). This also confused me as a reader, because in the beginning of the story he said Fortunato weakness was his pride knowing wine. I was thinking that if he does not like him would he say all these good things to
             stop him from going. As I read the story I learned that he said this so that Fortunato would not suspect anything. He used his weakness for the love of tasting wine to lure him for his plan to get revenge.
             The last passage that puzzled me is when he told Fortunato. " Come, we will go back your health precious" (pg. 221). This made me think that he was maybe changing his mind about what he was about to do. But this was just the plan to get Fortunato full trust and make him want to go taste the wine. This passage puzzled me the most because at first I thought he was really going to change his mind, but
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