In the article “The ironic double in Poe’s “the cask of amontillado”, the author points out that the story shows some of the insults that Montresor says that his friend Fortunato has done to him. The author states that in the story there is an example of one of the insults that leads to the narrators reasoning in killing his friend. The author points this out by showing us in the story where Fortunato insults his friend by forgetting the crest of the narrators family. During this, the narrator retells his friend of the family crest of his, a foot crushing a snake. With it, the author states that he believes himself as the foot and his friend was the snake. Also, the author points that the insults also points to the irony of the death of Fortunato.