The narrator from a novel named Montresor builds up his plan along the story to kill his enemy, Fortunato. In the end, he successfully killed Fortunato, but can the reader trust Montresor that he had accurately portrayed the events of the story? In the story, A Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe, Montresor is the narrator who talked about his plan along the story to kill his enemy, Fortunato. Montresor stated that Fortunato had given him a "thousand" injuries physically and mentally. The rest of the novel talked about what he did to Fortunato to kill him. Many people can trust the narrator from the "Cask of Amontillado," because he told the reader that he was going to take revenge on Fortunato because he gave him a lot of pain. Montresor had a good reason to kill Fortunato because Fortunato gave him a thousand injuries. The narrator in the other story killed the old man just because of his eye. In the "Cask of Amontillado," you can trust the narrator to accurately portray the events for the many following reasons. In the beginning, he tells the reader that his enemy, Fortunato, …show more content…
However, when he made a slight noise, the old man quickly woke up. Showing that the old man had a good sense of hearing and it also showed that the narrator didn't take concern about this before approaching him. If the narrator knew that the old man was barely sleeping and that he had a good sense of hearing, he wouldn't make that kind of careless mistake. In the "Cask of Amontillado," Montresor knew all of the weaknesses of Fortunato and knew every single thing in the vaults before even approaching Fortunato. It showed how much Montresor was serious about the plan and how much work he put into