In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe creates two mood in two different settings, the carnival and the catacombs. The first mood that is established at the carnival is a joyful mood, it then shifts to being suspenseful at the catacombs. During the carnival setting Poe uses a joyful and pleasant mood. When the the carnival setting first comes up, Fortunato approaches Montresor, “He accosted me with excessive warmth” (84). Fortunato is illustrating how he is excited to see Montresor and then is more excited when he finds out that he has a barrel of wine for him to taste. When Montresor gets to the carnival he said, “... pleased to see him”(84). Poe uses the word pleased, meaning Montresor was happy to see Fortunato because
