Deceit Lies Beneath

Deceit Lies Beneath

Brick by brick one man’s life was being concealed and was being left to die. While another’s was going to be left with most horrific guilt and regret, no person should ever endure. “The Cask of the Amontillado,” was a short story that was especially suspenseful and thrilling from the way the catacombs the author distinctly writes details about, and the character quotes. Which added to the mood of the story when the characters were in the catacombs.

The details of the catacombs gave the story and the reader an eerie mood and feeling. For example when they were going through the catacombs and they see the skeletal bones on the floor, which shows that some people have died down there, and no one seems to care about them. So Montressor could do something to Fortunado and no one would fine out what happen to Fortunado or where he is. In addition, when Montressor points out the increasing and thickening niter on the ceiling, that it grows thicker as they go deeper in the catacomb. The way it was hanging from the ceiling and the moisture from it, trickling down the walls. Meaning that they must have been under the river, and also which meant they were deep into the catacombs. Telling us that they were almost to the end giving the story an apprehension mood because now Montressor

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is going to do something to Fortunado. Which makes the reader wonder what he is going to do, and also making you sit on the edge of your seat not knowing what to expect.

Another way the mood was expressed was by what Montressor and Fortunado said during the story. For example, in the beginning of the story when Montressor tells us that someone has made a fool of him and that he must take revenge on that person. That he must not only punish but punish with impunity. This puts out the mood of uncertainty because you, the reader, want to know what happened to him, who made a fool of him, and who he is going to punish. In addition, the mood is brought upon the reader when Montressor is almost done with the brick wall and he hears a low, hair-standing cry coming from Fortunado. That makes Montressor stop and ask Fortunado if he was there, but nothing except silence came back to him. This all creates the mood of fear and puzzlement mood because at first the noise Fortunado makes is a very