Of The Narrator In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allen Poe

In the text of “The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allen Poe displays the narrator to be unreliable. An unreliable narrator is a character whose telling of the story is not completely accurate or credible due to problems with the character's mental state or maturity (study.com). In the story, our narrator Montresor plans a scheme to kill his friend, Fortunato, for the wrong he has done to him. Throughout the piece, the narrator explains to the readers that while this is a plot to take revenge on his friend, Poe utilizes the unreliable narrator to symbolize Montresor’s mental state, in which his feeling of villainy and guilt took after him in his decision making.
In the beginning of the short story, Montresor first expresses his anger towards