Montresor truly believes that Fortunato has wronged him but never decides to tell the reader how. In the first sentence of the story Montresor says, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (Poe 1). The first way Montresor shows us that he is unreliable is that he never tells us how Fortunato has wronged him. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe’s narrator Montresor is unreliable because not only does he use verbal irony, but we only hear how the events unfolded from his point of view. Poe uses many literary techniques throughout the “The Cask of Amontillado “which makes the reader question the events that Montresor explained throughout the story. Edgar Allan Poe is an author who is very well known for his short stories, and his use of unreliable narrators. In “The Cask of Amontillado” the narrator “Montresor” tells his version of a story about revenge on a man named Fortunato who he believed has wronged him.
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