If you were the author, how would you end "The Cask of Amontillado"?
Well, this assumes that I want to change the ending, right? (Otherwise, I'd say, the story looks good the way it is.)
If I were going to change the ending, I'd extend the final paragraph. I'd give us Montresor's exit from the catacombs, and show him going through the streets...
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of carnival, and then going home to have some good wine. All this time, Fortunato's cries would be heard, even when it had become physically impossible because Montresor was too far away. I'd do this to show how death lingers, as it often does in Poe's stories, and to show that Montresor enjoys the haunting, even savors it.