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The Cask of Amontillado Ironically, the story takes place during the carnival season of madness and merrymaking. Montresor plays on Fortunatos pride in his wine connoisseurship, asking him to verify whether or not Montresors recent bargain-price wine purchase is expensive amontillado or ordinary sherry. Fortunato agrees over Montresors protests that it would be an imposition and a health danger, since the vaults where the wine is stored are cold, damp and encrusted with nitre. Montresors expressed concern for the other mans well-being is at odds with his true intentions. the names of the wines noted throughout the story and their possible symbolism. for example, medoc for fortunato so he can fend off the cold and de grave while he is walking to his own grave. There are four possible reasons why Fortunato volunteered to check if it were really Amontillado.1) He was drunk. 2) The festival was going on and he was in high spirits. 3) He wanted to prove that he was better than Luchesi. 4) He was, of course, tricked by Montresor. He put in much exaggeration and falsity into his speech to egg Fortunado into entering the crypt or he would never be able to exact revenge. Free Mason refrence When Montressor was talking about being a mason he was probably responding in scarcasim to Fortunatos question. Montressor cleverly knows that he is detering the attention of his drunkin friend when he pulls out his trowel (which is a tool for masony).At that point in the conversation it seems that Fortundo aknowledges he lost the conversation in his intoxication and moves along to the Amontillado. the abnormal social phenomena exist in the reality,the intrigue among people to gain profits and also the immoral measures people took for panning gold at the Gold Rush Era. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Plot：The narrator is sent by a friend on an errand to visit an old man, Simon Wheeler, to find an old acquaintance of his friend, Leonidas W. Smiley. The narrator finds Simon