Question

The narrator in “The Cask of Amontillado” is unreliable and cannot be trusted. How does the unreliable narrator contribute to the element of suspense in the story? Remember, to cite correctly (Author pg) If you use the author in the text of your sentence you only need page number (2).

Answer 1

Fortunato contributes to the element of suspense by acting as if he is Montresaur (however you spell his name) friend. Fortunato has built up hate for Montresaur because of all the bad things he has done to him in the past. Throughout the story...Fortunato finds out there is an upcoming carnival. He plans to kill Montresaur by wearing a mask to the carnival and leading Montresaur into the catacombs to "look at the fine wine" he has but instead gets him drunk and leads him deeper into the catacombs where no one would look and hangs him against a wall of dead bones and starts to build a wall around him where he will slowly and painfully die, while drunk he does not know what is going on and thinks it is a joke, but as he becomes sober he cries for help while Fortunato builds a wall. As Fortunato gives his last words to Montresuar his puts the last brick in place.

"That's the best I could answer it, we read the poem in class a few weeks ago but I wanted to help because I still remembered some things about it.