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Trust In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allen Poe

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Damp, cold, and as dark as an abyss. The catacombs, an underground tunnel system, is a place featured in Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado. In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe develops the theme of trust through the characters Montressor and Fortunato.

Montressor is a character and the narrator of the story. He tells a story of his revenge on Fortunato fifty years in the past. Montressor gains Fortunato's trust by constantly poking at him about his safety. "We will go back; your health is precious, " shows how Montressor pretends to care for him to gain his trust.

Fortunato is an easily fooled person which is why he had no second thoughts when Montressor said there was a pipe of Amontillado in the catacombs. His trust

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