Philip McM. Pittman (essay date 1975)
SOURCE: "Method and Motive in 'The Cask of Amontillado'," in The Malahat Review, No. 34, April, 1975, pp. 87-100.
[In the following essay, Pittman argues that the perceived inconsistencies of Poe's tale contribute to its narrative, tonal, and thematic unity, positing that a symbolic schema, in which Fortunato's character assumes diabolic proportions, structures the tale.]
It may prove both presumptuous and superfluous to try to add "yet one word more" to the already respectable body of critical material...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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