Cask Of Amontillado

The setting of a story can completely change the meaning or the reasoning behind sayings and quotes in a story. However, parts of the setting could be there just to create imagery. Even if part of the setting may not seem to be important when it first comes up in the story it may be of importance later on. Much like any other piece of literature the setting of “The Cask of Amontillado” affects many parts in the story, it creates a dark mood, causes the characters to become less aware of everything around them, and foreshadows death.
This story has many setting descriptions that give the reader a dreary feeling. The characters were just beginning to walk into the catacombs and it is said that “The drops of moisture” from the river above “trickle among the bones” (113). The moisture from the ceiling created a cold and creepy feeling and the bones intensify this ambience. Later on the characters
While traveling deep into the catacombs Fortunato and the narrator walked passed “walls of piled bones” (108). The character are walking past dead corpses but do not seem to be phased and the fact that there were dead bodies may have lead the characters to feel that they may be killed. Walking even deeper into the crypt the narrators find part of it “lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead” (139). The characters were literally standing within human remains which may have created some feeling in which they may have felt like they were going to be killed. When they reached the end of the crypt the narrator lead Fortunato to the granite where there “were two iron staples” one of them “depended a short chain, from the other a padlock” (157-159). If Fortunato had been paying more attention he probably would have felt that he was going to be hurt or maybe even killed. The descriptions in the story could give the characters some sense that they would die or be