ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Amontillado, Gothic Fiction
16 Apr 2013
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About a woman in a house who is over powered by her father that doesn"t let her marry who she wants. Major part of the story: she"s been keeping a dead man in her house; this man was a construction worker in which she was involved with; it was hinted that he was a gay man. There"s this sense that there is no physical relationship; he seems to be a polite fellow for taking her out. But whatever she"s getting out of that relationship is more of an emotional attitude to have someone in her house. That work was so important to her that she would kill a man and lie beside that dead body. We"re in a whole different reality, relationship. The author is looking at a woman early 19 century, growing up in a certain environment; where she"s standing in front of a door with a father standing in front of her.
