A Cask of Amontillado A Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is the story of a young man named Montresor who is seeking revenge on a wine connoisseur named Fortunato because Fortunato insulted Montresor Montresors plan for revenge includes taking Fortunato down into the catacombs beneath his estate and leaving him there to die But in the end rather than being happy Montresor questions what he has just done In this story Edgar Allen Poe use foreshadowing and irony to prove that while revenge m