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The Cask Of Amontillado Revenge Quotes

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“The Cask of Amontillado” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. In The Cask of Amontillado one of the main characters named Montressor wanted to get revenge on Fortunado, another main character. Montresor wanted revenge on Fortunado because Fortunado hurt him in 1,000 ways. Montresor leads Fortunado down into the catacombs so he can make his revenge final, which is killing him. When Fortunado gets down there, Montressor walls him up and Fortunado dies. Montressor chooses to have the revenge take place in the catacombs because he is trying to avoid punishment.
When they were in the catacombs Poe quotes “its walls have been lined with human remains, and the bones had been laid promsicoule on the earth”(Poe 8). This quote is important
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