A Rose for Emily and Cask of Amontillado

A detailed Summary of A Rose for Emily and Cask of Amontillado

The short story The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, can be compared

and contrasted to the short story A Rose for Emily by Faulkner. In both of these stories

the main characters get away with a planned murder. Emily, in A Rose for Emily, murders

her companion, Homer Barron. She believes that as long as he is dead he can be forever

hers. She keeps him in her bed along side of her, despite the rotting body she still keeps

his death to herself. In The Cask of Amontillado, Montressor feels that his friend

Fortunado, has insulted him, and so he seeks revenge against him. He leads Fortunado

into the catacombs and leaves him there in chains behind a wall to die. The difference in

these two murderers is that Emily killed to keep someone whom she loved with her

forever, Montressor killed for revenge and to get rid of Fortunado.

Emily was a woman who in her earlier years was under severe control of her

father. She was forbidden to go out with boys and had very strict rules. Emily had always

wanted to be free, and to have a husband, and then when s

revenge, to seek revenge he tricked his friend into believing that there was Amontillado

enters her home, so there wouldn't be anyone to discover the death. She doesn't care

A Rose for Emily, and The Cask of Amontillado are similar in the way that they

She thought she was doing the right thing in keeping Homer Barron dead in her bad,

Montressor hears after he chains up Fortunado. He had felt no sympathy for killing him,

murders. At the end of both story's the characters have not been in anyway lawfully

Fortunado's death goes unheard of as well as Homer's. He is so far in the catacombs, he

Approximate Word count = 747
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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