Waverly vs. Montresor

Very often do people realize their mistakes, mistakes which are interpreted to be right by themselves, and tend to overcast its consequences with their constrains towards the flaw. In the two variant stories, “Rules of the Game” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, the major characters: Waverly Jong and Montresor respectively, represent the case of imperfection. Waverly and Montresor, both chose the wrong path towards the resolution of their personal conflicts, and defied any relationship, or consideration for their family, and society. Waverly Jong, a girl living in the Chinatown of San Francisco, who learns to play chess on the stake of her candies, and masters the different techniques in the game of chess. On the other hand, Montresor, who plans for taking a revenge for humiliation against Fortunato. Both these characters have major similarities, Waverly losing temper with her mom, as her mom felt proud of her chess-champion daughter, and was publicizing her daughter in the community, compared to the murderous intentions of Montresor due to his humiliation in public by Fortunato. Law is nowhere on Montresor’s radar screen, and the enduring horror of the story is the fact of punishment without proof. Montresor uses his subjective experience of Fortunato’s insult to name himself judge, jury, and executioner in this tale. This action of Montresor differentiates him from Waverly, who is a far superior character in reference to Montresor as she does not leaves the house, but comes back, and thinks carefully about the next move to be taken for winning the argument against her mother.

Waverly, a young truthful girl who enforced her mother’s secret tactic of invisible strength into herself, but failed to control her temper with that strateg...

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...s represents the characters in a very peculiar fashion. The coward Montresor hid his grave crime and ran away from it, whereas the bold and courageous, although bizarre, Waverly executed her flaw in public. Legally and ethically, Montresor is the inferior character between the two. Waverly and Montresor, both chose the wrong path towards the resolution of their personal conflicts, and defied any relationship, or consideration for their family, and society. Everyone makes mistakes at occasions; sometimes people commit wrong deed as well, but it does not signifies the evilness of a person; as a matter of fact, the aftermath of the event, as to face its consequences, bring the real characteristics of the person to acquaintance with the world.

Works Cited

Wiggins, Grant. Prentice Hall Literature: Language and Literacy. Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Pearson, 2010. Print.