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Fortunato is dressed like a fool, and Montresor wears a “mask of black silk.” Explain why these costumes are appropriate for the roles they play in the story. How are they representative of their “character types?” Use details from the story to support your opinion.
- Fotunato - dressed like a fool; drunk; gullible...falls quickly for M's tricks
- F doesn't see anything wrong with the fact that M pulls a trowel out of his cloak the night of a costume party?
- F blindly walks into a dark recess and is subsequently overtaken? Even at the end of his life, F thinks it is a joke (quote).
Montressor - dresses in black; easy to hide among shadows outside, blend in, go unnoticed; also it is representative of his soul - black, dark, evil, insane, etc. Black is often associated with death/dying...and that is what M brings - death to F.