This brings us to why Montresor could be considered a reliable narrator. All he says is that he had a cough, but he doesn’t ever explain where it came from. Even from the quote above there is a lack of evidence as to why he found it impossible to respond. Another thing is that Montresor seems to leave out evidence. That fact that he says that he didn’t reply for minutes could have meant that he didn’t reply for an hour for all we know as an audience. For example, he states that his “poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes” (Poe 109). Also, when Montresor is telling the story, it’s difficult to tell whether the events happening are in a chronological timely order with one event happening right after the other. The main one is that Montresor is a murderer, and it’s hard to trust someone who kills people especially when his only reason to kill Fortunato is that “he ventured upon insult” (Poe 107).
Now, Montresor is described as an unreliable narrator for a few main reasons. That is the only information that I could find on why to trust Montresor as a narrator, but now to talk about why critics and I consider him unreliable. So this critics argument is to just trust Montresor in his descriptions as to what is going on based purely on the fact that it makes the story easier to understand if you aren’t second guessing everything that is being described to you. One critic suggests that everything that Montresor says is “best taken literally, for if they are, other details fall into place” (St. To begin, we will look at the reasons as to why critics think that he is a reliable narrator. We are also going to look at my personal reasons as to why I think he is both reliable and unreliable. Through out this paper, we are going to look into the reasons why the critics believe that Montresor is a reliable narrator and why he is considered an unreliable narrator. I believe that Montresor could be considered both a reliable and an unreliable narrator. I personally agree with both sides of the critics.
We will begin by looking at what the critics have to say about the story, and then move onto what I have to say about the story.Īs stated before, some critics say that Montresor is a reliable narrator in the information he is offering to the reader, while others say that he is completely unreliable in the information given. This paper is going to explain the reasons behind why Montresor could be stated as both, and the reasons behind why Montresor wanted revenge. There are many reasons as to why Montresor would be considered an unreliable narrator, but there are also a few as to why he would be considered reliable. As the narrator, Montresor, recites the story, you can see the swing in his mental state from vengeful to the complete opposite feeling of pity. The story is about the narrator, Montresor, who vengefully deceives his “poor friend” (Poe 109) Fortunato into following him to his own death. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe, and unlike most stories, the narrator may or may not be reliable with the facts that he presents.
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