ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture : 1A03 Day 12 (Cask of Amontillado).docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Jeffery Donaldson

Document Summary

The entire story revolves around, and moves inexorably toward, the impression and the single unthinkable fat of this crime. The story takens on meaning in how we are moved towards this ghastly revelation. It lies ahead for the reader like a tiny space that we cannot yet see into. It will be disclosed to us in time. It is also the strategy that he appears to use with his victim. The reader then is in something of the same position as fortunato himself. We are curious to see where we are going when we finally do see where we are headed, we will be struck by, and stuck with, its fullest implication and horror. It will be what we are left with . A temporal configuration with a destination or end. The true destination is a function of the means by which one arrives at it. Not just getting somewhere, but by what subtleties and indirections.