The classic
horror short story "" bytells of a man named Montresor who vows revenge after
Fortunato insults him. However, he does not take his vengeance right away. He says that at
length, or after some time, he would be avenged. First he devises a complicated plot that
involves preparing a chamber in his family catacombs where he can imprison his victim, having
his servants leave the house, and somehow persuading Fortunato to voluntarily follow him to his
doom so there will not be an outcry that would attract attention.
Montresor
uses the cask of Amontillado, a type of sherry wine, to lure Fortunato because he knows that
Fortunato considers himself a connoisseur of fine wines.
He had a weak pointthis Fortunatoalthough in other regards he was to be a man respected
and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship of wines.
Montresor is able to play upon this weakness to make Fortunato not
only willing but eager to follow him to his doom. He heightens Fortunato's resolve by
threatening to go to another man, Luchresi, for his opinion. This intensifies the desire of
Fortunato to accompany Montresor for the tasting because he considers Luchresi a poor judge of
wine and he wants to prove himself better. It really is a cunning and devious plan that
Montresor uses to get Fortunato to voluntarily accompany him to the dark, damp creepy vaults,
not knowing that Montresor is leading him to his death. Only at the end, after he is already
chained to the wall, does Fortunato realize that there is no Amontillado and that he has been
deceived.
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