![]() Fortunato just keeps talking about the Amontillado.Įventually, Fortunato walks into a man-sized hole that’s part of the wall of a really nasty crypt. Fortunato keeps coughing, and the narrator constantly suggests that Fortunato is too sick to be down among the damp crypts, and should go back. The narrator leads Fortunato deeper and deeper into the catacomb, getting him drunker and drunker along the way. Apparently, that’s where the narrator keeps his wine. So he and the narrator go to the underground graveyard, or “catacomb,” of the Montresor family. Fortunato expresses eager interest in verifying the wine’s authenticity. ![]() The narrator mentions he’s found a barrel of a rare brandy called Amontillado. He meets Fortunato, who is all dressed up in jester clothes for a carnival celebration − and is already very drunk. The narrator begins by telling us that Fortunato has hurt him. Until then, we’ll call him “the narrator.” Here we go. ![]() The story is told in first person, so we don’t explicitly learn the narrator’s name until near the end. ![]()
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