Cast of Amantillo

The Cask of Amontillado
In the short story The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery to relay the atmosphere and the feelings of the setting and character. We find that he uses this imagery to talk about a moment, an attitude and places. Foreshadowing is also used to let the audience know how he intended to interact the other character. It lets the reader know and understand why certain behaviors and actions take place. Without his extensive use of imagery and brief flirt with foreshadowing, the effectiveness of getting the idea of this story across to the reader may not have happened.

One of his first uses of imagery is when he refers to an evening as one of “supreme madness of the carnival season” (173). This allows the reader to generate their own opinion of what type of madness exist during the carnival season. If a reader has been to a carnival before, he might find himself visualizing the characters in a setting not unlike one he has exper...