If "The Cask" seems simply a story of a clever and successful revenge, it is also the story of a failed quest that goes much beyond the simple search for the cask of Amontillado, a dark-colored Spanish sherry. The dialogue amounts to a duel with words, which is unusual since Poe rarely depended much on dialogue in constructing his stories. It is especially notable for two reasons: its subtle, ironic treatment of a passionate but coldly calculated plot to bury a man alive to satisfy an aristocrat's honor and its superb dialogue between the protagonist, the insulted nobleman Montresor, and his antagonist, the gross bourgeois Italian who has a purchased title, Fortunato. The Edgar Allan Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado" is one of his finest.
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