Montresor walks away with only the sound of Fortunato’s jingling jester bells echoing in the tomb. Montresor shackles Fortunato inside, and begins to seal up the wall with bricks.Īs the last few bricks are laid, Fortunato screams for Montresor to stop, but it is too late. When they reach their destination, there is no Amontillado, but there is a hole in the wall. Fortunato continues to drink wine to ease his cough.

As suspense builds, Montresor keeps asking if Fortunato would like to turn back because he seems ill. Montresor lures Fortunato down into the dark and eerie wine vault.

Montresor is retelling a story of a crime he did. Identify the INCITING INCIDENT in the story. Although, he doesn't tell the reader what Fortunato has done, he makes it known that it was unforgivable. Plot summary: The main character, Montresors, detailing of events of revenge as a premeditated murder against Fortunato. The setting was at a carnival in later to Montresors vaults. The narrator, Montresor, claims that Fortunato has gravely insulted him, and is plotting to get his revenge. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. It is late at night and Fortunato seems ill. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato for some unspecified insult by luring him down into his family vaults to inspect some wine. However, this bottle is in his catacombs. During Carnival in Italy, Montresor runs into Fortunato, and offers to share a very nice bottle of Amontillado wine with him.

Plot of the cask of amontillado