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......
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