In the short story "The Cask Of Amontillado" a man murdered his friend (who was a wine taster) in a wine cellar. How crazy is that? The main character tricked his friend saying he was needing someone to taste his this wine that was supposed to be good and he had this renound wine taster to taste it for him but the main characters friend was arrogant and thought nobody was as good a wine taster as him if anyone should try it it should be him.
So he led his friend down to the wine cellar and chained him up and burried him in a wall, as a reader its up to myself to figure how he died could be from hypothermia, he was sick, or a combination of being sick and his heart pacing from being scared, also suffocation. Either way it must have been a horrible death. I myself would never wanna go out that way. But the reason the Amontillado was so important name is because it is a wine, and as we know the friend was murdered in a wine cellar. So its kind of ironic I think. Not only does the title mean a wine but the friend who was a wine taster got killed in a wine cellar.
So I think Amontillado is so important because it really sets off the setting and scheme of the story it was a pretty crazy story. Edgar Allan Poe is truly a genious with his work, and to me its kind of crazy how one thinks of stories like that got to have a brilliant mind to really pull that off.
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