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At one point, Fortunato makes a gesture that Montresor does not recognize and deduces that Montresor is not a mason. Montresor shows him a trowel as a joke, deliberately confusing Freemasonry with the profession of stonemasonry. They arrive at a niche deep within the catacombs, where Montresor claims the Amontillado is stored.
Montresor Herringbone hates his wife Annabelle and her black cat. One night on a ramble about town, he happens upon a wine tasting event and challenges the world's foremost wine taster, Fortunato Luchresi, to a contest. Herringbone successfully identifies each wine, but becomes drunk.
In the Wiki summary, The main point of Montresor's plan of revenge seems to have been missed. Early in the story, you will read about Montresor looking forward to Fortunato's "immolation" (fiery death). Then later during the trek through the crypt, in search of the non-existent cask, you will see reference to "nitre" formed on the walls.
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Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that "Poe's protagonist [in the story "The Cask of Amontillado"] is an Englished version of the French Montrésor" and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for that protagonist was the Count of Montrésor. The protagonist was called Montresor in the story. [2]
Montresor, the bat ridden by "Iron Tail" in the children's movie Here Comes Peter Cottontail; Montrésor, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France; Château de Montrésor, a medieval castle in that commune; Randall's Island, called Montresor's Island in the 18th century, an island in the East River in New York City
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