“The Cask of Amontillado” was my favorite out of the three Poe stories we read because of the narrator’s characteristics. To begin, Montresor, the main character of this story, was very cunning in luring his friend, Fortunato, using different methods such as giving him “a flagon of De Grâve” (Poe 2). He gave his former friend alcohol to intoxicate him, and this was disguised carefully by his devious self as a treatment for Fortunato’s cough. The narrator was extremely cautious about the execution of his plan, and this was a quality that appealed to me, but preferably for a positive cause. In addition, this text was not as gory as the others when Montresor worked “vigorously to wall up the entrance of the niche” (Poe 3) and eventually kill Fortunato.
