The Cask Of Amontillado Montresor Character Analysis

The Cask of Amontillado Analysis How could an insult drive you to kill? How could someone have so much apathy? This is what people contemplate as they read through “The Cask of Amontillado”. In this short story written by Edgar Allen Poe, Montresor, a main character, is not the most affable protagonist. In fact, he is very apathetic. In this story Montresor is manipulative and tenacious and Cajoles people in his favor. However, Montresor hides these traits very well, he actually makes it seem as if he is people’s friends, when in his head all he wishes is for their demise. Montresor suppresses his traits very well, he is good at being benevolent, and playing along with people and making them believe something that is not true. These actions …show more content…
This shows how Montrestor puts the well beings of others into his own hands and how sensitive he is to comments that hurt him, or disrespect him. This is a conflict because Montrestor doesn’t know what he is going to do yet and it’s weighing him down. In addition to this man vs. self conflict, there was another conflict. Based on this evidence, “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met…But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts” (7). This is a conflict between Montresor and the lie that he was telling to Fortunato. This is a conflict due to the fact that Montresor had to subliminally coerce Fortunato to fall into his trap he had waiting for him. Montresor had a conflict that his Amontillado was a fake, and he was confiding this information to his dear friend Fortunato. And even though Montresor knew that none of the words coming from his mouth were authentic, this is still a conflict due to the fact that this was a point in the story where Montrestor was luring In Fortunato. And this is also a conflict because we didn’t know whether Montrestor’s plan to avenge himself would work or