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Fortunato By Edgar Allan Poe

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Fortunato is the protagonist of this short story, he is the most important character in the novel. Fortunato liked the good wine, and occasionally he overdoing with alcohol. We see that Edgar Allan Poe identifies a lot with this character since Poe was an alcoholic (Kennedy 5).He is the antagonist of this story, he feels a great grudge towards Fortunato since apparently Fortunato on several occasions humiliated Montresor. Fortunato is a friend of Montresor, through him we have some information about the character or Fortunato, Montresor says that he is an expert of wine, he is very arrogant about his ability to distinguish a good wine. In the end, his great love was the cause of his death. Another character of the story is Montresor he is

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