The narrator plays a major role in the story and becomes portrayed as a very clever man. After Montresor decides to create a plan for revenge, he insures the palace empty so his murder will stay confidential. “There were no attendants at home; they had absconded …show more content…
Montresor leads Fortunato deep into creepy catacombs and wants to torture him to death. Montresor possesses no pity for Fortunato and leaves him to die. Montresor, a man who never feels bad for the people who turn against him, feels Fortunato deserves a harsh punishment. “We had passed through walls of piled bones with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of catacombs” (Poe 3). The author demonstrates how Montresor holds no sympathy for the ones who turn against him and sets the mood for the killing of the enemy. At the end of the short story, Montresor kills Fortunato and tricks him into the trap of death. Montresor deviously persuades Fortunato to his own death and achieves his major goal. Montresor easily persuades people into doing exactly what he wants. Montresor reveals wrong morals when he constructs a vengeful plan to kill his