Lecture Reading

              This post is to indicate that i read the posted lecture on the "Cask of Amontillado", that is associated with canceled class next week. 

             Another major indication showing that Montresor is not to be trusted is when he states, “It must be understood that neither by word or deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will.” Montresors’ statement here shows that he is scheming against Fortunato. It does not feel like a situation, though, where Montresor should be justly scheming against this man. By reading through this story my understanding does not shift, Montresors narration only proves to me that he is recounting what he did to Fortunato. While at the same time it seems that he is trying to convince himself that his deed was just.

            Throughout this story I see Montresor s the antagonist and Fortunato as theprotagonist. Montresor seems to be the antagonist because throughout the whole story he is just seeking to end Fortunato. At the beginning of th story a kind of helpless picture is painted of Fortunato, for he is very drunk; so it just seems like Montresor is taking advantage of him. It sort of creates a sense of pitty felt by the reader, no matter what Fortunato may have done to Montresor. So I feel like the protagonist/antagonist relationship is established at the very beginning of the story, as even then Montresor seems to be an untrustworthy person. The relationship holds until the end of the story.