Many short stories come from a first person perspective and many times first person perspective can influence the reader’s perception. The short story, “Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, demonstrates the narrator influencing the perception of the story itself as well as the characters. The narrator, Montresor, plays a huge key in the story because he tells the readers his thoughts about the other character and the opinion of other people's thoughts on the character. We as readers have no choice but to take his word, knowing no previous information of the other characters but the one given by him. Montresor starts the story off with how fortunate insulted him. What specifically how he was insulted by Fortunato is not for told but This immediately gives a bad impression to Fortunato because the impression is given that Fortunato has done something terribly wrong to Montresor. The narrator then goes on to say that he seeks great revenge upon Fortunato and that this revenge is harsh. It's harsh because he says, “ I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.” …show more content…
With him being the only one in the story we have to go with this perception of what type of man other people see Fortunato as. Now say Fortunato told this story, it wouldn't be as interesting because he himself doesn't know what's going to happen to himself so we’ll be blinded through the whole story because we wouldn't know the intentions of