The Mood In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allan Poe

The mood communicated in The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe is eerie and mysterious. Poe establishes this mood by giving the reader distinct details about the events unfolding in the story. An example of the mood Poe creates is when Montresor and Fortunado are making their way down to the catacombs to get the Amontillado. “Let us go, nevertheless,” Fortunato makes his way down to the catacombs, continuing to deny his cold and tells Montresor to drop it and continue onto the Amontillado. He continues by saying that Luchesi “cannot distinguish Sherry from Amontillado,” (Poe, 374). The mood of this quote is very mysterious in a sense that the reader develops many questions about what is going to happen down in the catacombs and what