A secret crime during a time of fun and joy. The story “the Cask of Amontillado” is a dread-filled, vengeful novel about the plotting and murder of Fortunato the “antagonist,” placed in what is presumably Spain during Carnival. Montresor is a rich man with a grievance he wishes to carry out on Fortunato.Which leads Montresor, or more to the point, Poe, to then move the setting to the Montresor family catacombs. A great place to keep the murder concealed and a way to make an already macabre plot of murder that much darker. As the catacombs are filled with moss and dead relatives of Montresors’.This is also partially at fault of the victim, Fortunato, as Fortunato's death is caused by his indescribable greed. “You have been imposed upon.
