Edgar Poe

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado, “ there are many examples of irony in the words spoken by Montressor. As a reader these passages puzzled me and gave me a difficult time understanding the story. His use of irony was new to me and I didn’t understand some of the things he was saying in the story. In this essay I will discuss some of the passages that irony was used in …

…reading the story over again I understood it more. Montressor’s clever way of luring Fortunato down so he could go through with his plan and acting like he didn’t want him to come was great use of irony to make the me as an reader think he one thing. But all this come to light in at the end of the story when u find out this was just apart of his plan.