Imagery is an important tool in this story that helps us with questioning all of Montresor’s motives. His face is covered with black mask, he doesn’t represent the justice but rather its opposite, revenge. Fortunato is the one who gets tragically fooled by Montresor’s unknown motives. The colors represent the irony that is Fortunato’s death s. Fortunato faces the fact that even the carnival season can be deathly serious. Montresor chooses the carnival setting because of its lack of social order . and While the carnival usually is a joyful event, Montresor changes that image into the perfect murder spot. The repeated allusions of the bones that line the vaults foreshadow the story’s travel down into the underworld. The two men
