Mortality, while mostly known as a rate for people, is a theme well shown between many different stories. Mortality is something everyone experiences sometime in their life, whether that mortality be on them or on a close person to them. This causes people to react differently to what is happening, some may be rational, others may be irrational. Within these stories there are ways that the people that come face to face with death react, some may be calm, others terrified. We find the people that cause this to happen do this for some reason that allows for them to have a personal gain in their lives.
We can find in these stories that someone is afraid of being killed. This is shown in two ways, one being that the person afraid is either
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In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Fortunato is unable to realize what is happening to him until it is too late. The story shows him as this conceit person where after this point he is scared for his life. He tries to save himself rather than try and apologize to Montresor, the narrator and main character of the story, by saying things such as, “For the love of God, Montresor!” It can also be found within “A Good Man is Hard to Find” that the grandmother is trying to save herself, rather than being a good person. When looking at “A Good Man is Hard to Find” this character is the grandmother, who is attempting at all costs to talk The Misfit into allowing her to live. She tries coaxing him into this, saying things like, “Jesus, you ought not to shoot a lady.” which shows no progress for getting to him. Like Fortunato, the grandmother, while sounding like a good person, was trying to get to The Misfit to let his guard down and allow her to escape rather than trying to get him to actually be a good person. Some may look at it as her trying to be a good person, while it can be taken as trying to save herself. Similar to this predicament is Tessie Hutchinson in “The Lottery,” who is also on death