“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story about the narrator, Montresor, getting revenge on a rich and popular man, Fortunato, who has done him wrong. In the story, Montresor lures Fortunato into the Montresor’s catacombs to bury him alive by suggesting that there is Amontillado in a barrel within the catacomb. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the setting contributes to the effect of the story. Montresor’s catacomb is a dark, lonely place. No one is around the night Montresor plans to get revenge on Fortunato. Montresor used reverse psychology and “told his servants they should not stir from the house since he would be away all night” (Reynolds 183) to make sure that the servants would leave the home. Because there