Cask of Amontillado Plot Summary
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- "The Cask of Amontillado" By Edgar Allan Poe with thanks to Alyssa Franklin
- Montresor wants revenge on Fortunato and plans to meet Fortunato at the Carnival later that evening.
- exposition
- the mood is brooding
- rising action
- the mood is predatory
- Montresor lures Fortunato to his catacombs with the promise of Amontillado.
- climax
- After a long trip through the catacombs, Montresor chains Fortunato to a wall and begins to build a brick wall to seal him inside.
- the mood is sadistic
- falling action
- Montresor sets the last of the stones to seal the wall and leaves Fortunato to die.
- the mood is desolate
- resolution
- Montresor leaves never to return.
- the mood is fatalistic
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