Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask Of Amontillado'

1. What can the reader infer about Montresor’s social position and character from hints in the text? What evidence does the text provide that Montresor is an unreliable narrator? We learned from paragraph 23 to 24 that Montresor owns a Palazzo and also has lot of retainers based on that evidence, the reader can infer that Montresor is a very wealthy and successful man. About his character, the reader can imply that Montresor is a heartless, cold blooded, sneaky, manipulative, and untrustworthy man, as well as a man who hold on to grudges. Moreover, Montresor is an unreliable narrator, because he reveals in the first paragraph that he intends to have a revenge on Fortunato, but he did not indicate or clearly prove to the readers how Fortunato

Who is the auditor, the “You,” addressed in the first paragraph vault of “The Cask of Amontillado”? When is the story being told? Why is it being told? How does your knowledge of the auditor and the occasion influence the effect the story has on you? “You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a treat,” seems to infer the narrator is addressing a person who already knows a lot about him as a person. It could be a friend, a priest or a family member .The story is being told 50 years after the crime is being committed. I believe the story is being told by the narrator as a form of confession when he was on a sick bed, to make peace with himself for committing such a brutal crime. I actually do not have that much knowledge of the auditor, because this is my first time of reading his work. However, based on the research I made about his works, it seems like his works are famous for featuring dark themes, violence and psychologically unstable characters. Examples of those works are “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Black Cat”, both of which involve narrators who are not of sound minds. In “The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator murder the old man he lives with because he is bothered by the man eye. Similarly, in “The Black Cat”, the narrator attempts to kill his cat but murders his wife when she tries to defend the animal. This story makes me want to read more of Poe’s work because I like dark theme