Critique of “The Cask of Amontillado”

“The Cask of Amontillado” is an obvious choice for the anthology after reading it. It contains many literary elements within its few pages. The elements that I particularly enjoyed were the tone, symbolism, and irony.
The plot of the story is integrated. It is a straight and to the point story about a man who vows, plots, and carries out plan of ultimate revenge on another man who he considers a friend. There are two characters in the story. The protagonist, Montresor, and the antagonist, Fortunato. Montresor has apparently been insulted by Fortunato and has decided that this insult cannot go unpunished according to his family crest: nemo me impune lacessit (no one wounds me with impunity). Montresor devises a plan that allows him to lure Fortunato, with a cask of Amontillado, into the catacombs beneath his house and wall him up in a niche.
The setting of the story is an evening ...