The murder of Homer is a flashback and a continuation of Emily's dysfunctional relationship with her father. Just as she later holds onto Homer's corpse, she also refuses to let her father's corpse go for three days. Although both male figures dominate her, she can not let them go. Her aberrant grieving for her father foreshadows her later necrophilia. As a last attempt to capture long lost love, she has to murder Homer. She then holds onto the decomposing corpse for decades, just as she does all of the other old, decomposing things in her life.
From Ms. Emily's home Edgar Allan Poe seems like a natural progression. "Unlike Poe's other mysteries, the Cask of Amontillado" is not a tale of detection. There is no investigation of the murder of Fortunato and Montresor himself explains how he commits the crime and claims that the motive is revenge. However, the cryptic details leave this open to interpretation. Mystery and suspense still surrounds the motive for the murder and how Montresor used his position of trust as a friend of Fortunato to trick him into a situation of revenge.
Like most analysts of the story, Baraban leaves open the motive of the murder.
The reader must use foreshadowing to sort this out since no detective is available. Baraban also brings up the possible motive of insanity, but questions it due to the intricate details of the plot (Baraban). Psychotics certainly are usually not self-maintaining individuals, so this does not meet the criteria of an explanation, at least for incompetent ones who get caught. However, this only adds to the mystery.
Fortunato claims to be a connoisseur of fine wine, but the story line definitely raises question about this line of analysis. To illustrate Fortunato's lack of knowledge, all that must be considered is the way he becomes so drunk that he can not tell the difference between Amontillado and De Grave, a very expensive French wine that he gulps down with little regard (Moffitt 41-42).
The bricklaying theme adds to the mystery and adds to macabre foreshadowing....
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