Symbolism in the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe

The short story “ The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allen Poe, contains various symbolisms in it. I will discuss the tight-fitting dress and conical cap (134), the silk mask and roquelaure (135) and Montressor’s family coat of arms (136); furthermore, the symbolism of the cask of wine. I will try to show how I interpret these symbolisms as I see them.
Poe uses Fortunato’s clothing as a symbol “he had on a tight-fitting party-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells,”(134) a court jesters outfit to symbolize that Montressor is to make a clown out of Fortunato and humiliate him to death, and allow him to think about his actions as he dies a long, slow death.
The symbolism of “ a mask of black silk, and drawing a roquelaure,”(135) which Montressor puts on before going down (Hell) into the catacombs, represents the Grimreaper or death. They represent and tell us what Montressor has planned. His “getting even” is ev...