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Through the use of imagery, Poe creates a vivid and compelling description of his family’s catacombs and the events of carnival.

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As Montresor whisks away Fortunato to his palace it is described that Fortunato “possessed himself of my arm. Putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaure” ( Poe 175).

Commentary #1
In this description of Montresor, he is described as a figure dressed in a black, traveling through the night, with a clueless Fortunato on his attached to his forearm. This description of Montresor adds an intensifying layer of suspense before they even reach the palazzo, for it is as if Montresor is death, leading Fortunato to his untimely end.

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Commentary #2
The area they proceed to enter adds a sense of eeriness and another reminder at how uncomfortable the area is. Lack of light even with the torches through the narrow paths of the vaults plays on the sinister mood built on Montresor’s thirst for revenge.

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As Montresor leads Fortunato through the catacombs to his untimely death, the catacombs of the Montresors are decorated and dressed, unlike others. “At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead” (177).

Commentary #3
The vaults that lay beneath the palace of the Montresors’ not only serves as a wine cellar, but also as a crypt. The bones piling up alongside the walls serve as a reminder of bodies that once laid their adding, a claustrophobic kind of feeling

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