Who Is The Narrator In The Cask Of Amontillado

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In the middle of the night, from the house on Rue Morgue there are screams coming from inside. The next morning, we find out that a mother and daughter were murdered by an unknown killer, and the mother has her neck cut from her body outside the house window and the daughter was strangled and shoved into a fireplace. Two detectives, the unnamed narrator and Dupin both investigate the house and interrogate many witnesses to get clues about the killer, However useless, Dupin figures out that it was not a human who killed them but an animal. The animal belonged to a sailor and that the animal escaped holding a knife seeing light inside the room and killing them both.

CASK OF AMONTILLADO
There were two men, Fortunato and Montresor who were meeting in the evening of spring of the streets of Paris were talking and Montresor suggested that Fortunato come to his vaults to try his new wine, Amontillado. However Montresor disliked
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In the beginning he described himself as loving and kind to all animals and that his wife shared that same love for animals as he did. However, multiple nights of the week, the narrator got drunk and while he was walking home, the cat followed him like always. That angered him so he took a knife out of his coat cutting his neck and eye out. A little while later, his wife got him a new cat that looked exactly like Pluto and this time, he took that cat and put a rope around his neck and hung him from the ceiling of the cellar. Mysteriously, the house burned soon after and the man left the cat in there. One night, his wife heard weird screams coming from the cellar so he asked her husband to follow and she too was murdered by the man, both the second cat and the wife were hidden inside the wall. Once the police came to investigate, he confessed to his crimes showing the police the second cat and the wife’s corpse in the

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