ance. Here, Montressor lures a drunk Fortunato into the room with the promise of Amontillado, only to chain him up and leave him to die. Although Poe doesn’t mention many noises in this selection, noise is an important part of setting. Noise abducts the reader into the story, causing them become part of it, and experience the same feelings as the characters. Poe mostly mentions the noises created by Fortunato as he follows Montressor to his doom. The jingling of the bells on Fortunato’s hat remind the readers of the carnival proceeding without them in the city, and seem to create a false sense of joy and promise. Fortuanto’s bells also seem so have an eerie ring to them; almost as if signaling his death. His continuous coughing seems to foreshadow his murder in the sense that he is sick, and that not all is not as well as it seems, even to him. What all writers must strive for is an outpouring of emotion from their readers. If they fail in this endeavor their stories will have a great deal less meaning to them. Authors cannot accomplish their primary goal of meaning and impact on life, without the use of setting. Edgar Allen Poe was a master at designing a setting to accomplish his goal of bringing emotion, even fear, into his stories and poems.By Brent Porter ...
