Response to Libby Wandersee

I agree with you that both stories are based on motives and also how you said that the reader needs no reason if the character is insane like in the Tell-Tale Heart, and that the character in The Cask of Amontillado the character seams completely sane, but ends up building a wall of stone to lock Furtunato in a cypt where he eventually dies. I also agree with you that in the second story the motives aren’t really clear. We don’t really know what wrong had been done to our main character Montressor only that some wrong has been down and in the first story, we know that no wrong has been done, only that the narrator doesn’t like this guy’s eye so he decides to kill him.

I also agree with you on how throughout the whole story, Fortunato is made to look like a fool. I also believe that his name is supposed to be ironic in a way, because he is in no way fortunate in the story. Also Monstressor in Latin means “no one provokes me without impunity”, which I also think is metaphor for the fact that he gets revenge on this guy for doing something to him, although we never find out exactly what that is.