Most people don’t realize how much authors describe themselves in their own writing works. Edgar Allan Poe has turned out to be one of my favorite writers and one of the greatest writers in his time. In the story of “The Cask of Amontillado” the suspense, the irony and the symbolic words are a reflection of Poe himself which captives any reader to the tale of revenge. To Understand Edgar Allan Poe’s works we have to understand who Edgar was. Poe’s reputation was primarily based on his tales of terror. It made him seem as if he was a dark heartless man himself. Nevertheless, he was more that, he was the middle child of three, he had lost both of his parents at the age of three, and he had big dreams of being a great writer (Poe Museum 2014). As a young child, he was …show more content…
Yes, he married his cousin Virginia. In spite of Edgar having no money and no friends Edgar still managed to keep writing and taking his writings to New York to get published. He couldn’t find financial success in his publishing’s and he couldn’t keep a regular job (Poe Museum 2014). Eventually, he found his life’s work in the magazine Messenger. It was a very popular subscription, but soon after Edgar got a name for himself as a fearless critic (Giordano 2007). Poe had been through a lot in his life as he never settled and chased his dreams to no ends. By the time he wrote “The Cask of Amontillado” he was already a known author for his poem “The Rave” (Giordano 2007). Soon after Virginia became ill and died, Poe was deeply devastated that he could write for months then later collapsed from stress. (Giordano 2007). In Poe’s last days he left New York and traveled around visiting his friends, he was truly an unhappy man that lost everything but his ability to write. The alcohol to a toile in his life and he truly turned out to be the dark and heartless man, but time made him that way. The man that he became was