What is the plot of The Cask of Amontillado?

Answer 1

A basic summary:
A guy is mad at his "friend," so he tricks him into thinking he has a very expensive wine. He leads him to the cellars where the wine is supposedly hidden, getting him drunk along the way. When they reach the bottom of the cellar, he chains him to the floor and builds a wall around him, burying him alive.

Answer 2

The Cask Of Amontillado Sparknotes

Answer 3

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What is the plot of The Cask of Amontillado?

Answer 4

You shouldn't need to ask this question here. If you can't find it on sparknotes.com, try wikipedia.org. This is what the wikipedia entry summary says:

" The story begins during the carnival, in an unspecified Italian city. Montresor bears a grudge against one of his "friends," ironically named Fortunato, for insulting him, and explains that he has found a way to avenge himself that satisfies the two conditions he has: that Fortunato knows for sure Montresor is behind it and that he himself escapes revenge or punishment. Fortunato has a cold.

Montresor finds his friend Fortunato at dusk. He is drunk and dressed in carnival costume as a jester. Using reverse psychology, he induces Fortunato, whose knowledge of fine wine he admires, to follow him into the catacombs underneath his palazzo to determine if his newly-acquired barrel storage cask of Amontillado, a kind of Spanish sherry, is indeed authentic and thus worth the price he has paid. They talk as they walk deep into the catacombs, discussing Fortunato's health, the Montresor family motto Nemo me impune lacessit, Latin for "No one assails me with impunity", and membership in the Freemasons (the trowel Montresor brandishes to punctuate his masonic point carries a double meaning, as Fortunato will soon learn). The ominous atmosphere intensifies as they continue to the damp, potassium nitrate air of the Montresor crypt.

Dumbfounded at the absence of the Amontillado at the end of their passage, Fortunato stands 'stupidly bewildered' and Montresor takes advantage of the situation, suddenly chaining Fortunato to the wall in a small alcove roughly the size of a coffin. Montresor seals the doorway with bricks as Fortunato regains his sobriety and pleads in desperation. During the process of entombing Fortunato alive, Montresor taunts him with his freedom, thrusts a torch into the room through the remaining opening (fire needs oxygen to burn, thus Montresor is slowly suffocating Fortunado), then walls him up completely. Ironically, Fortunado is buried with the remains of Montresor's family. Montresor leaves, concluding his story with an exclamation in Latin "In pace requiescat!" ("May he rest in peace!"). He tells us that this all happened fifty years ago, and nothing has disturbed the tombs since, entirely fulfilling his original plan. "

Answer 5

Just read it. It's actually a pretty good story. But, if you must, just go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cask_of_Amontillado

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cask_of_Amontillado#Summary