Irony in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allen Poe, is a story wherein irony plays a critical role in unfolding the intentions of the unreliable narrator Montresor. ... Even the setting reveals some sense of irony as we travel from a joyous carnival scene to the dark, dismal, catacombs of the Montresor's. ... They greet each other as friends but the reader is made aware that Montresor smiles with vengeance in his heart. ... Henceforth it is a verbal irony that paves Fortunato"s misfortune. ... This is not a fact that is grasped b...

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The last paragraph of the story lends more credence to the fact that he is a psychopath in which he tells us "[his] heart grew sick – on account of the dampness of the catacombs." ... The main character of the story, Emily Grierson, was raised by her father, who was a very controlling man; he chased away all of her potential suitors when she was young because they were not wealthy enough; the irony being that her family had lost their money and were no longer as highly regarded as they once were. ... These three stories have similar components; while Poe and Faulkner both use of dark hum...

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