What is the falling action and resolution of The Cask of Amontillado?

Answer 1

It seems to me that the rising action would be when Montresor talks about amontillado that he got and luchesi in front of Fortunato which immediately makes Fortunato want to check it out because he thinks of himself as a wine connoisseur and does not want to miss out. What the reader and Montresor knows that Fortunato does not is that its all a trick to get Fortunato killed. E.B.

Answer 2

The falling action of "The Cask of Amontillado" occurs when Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall and begins to close up the niche. The resolution happens when Montresor finishes walling up Fortunato and confidently states that no one has disturbed the bones for half a century. This indicates that Montresor got away with his crime and Fortunato's fate is sealed.

Answer 3

The falling action is where Montresor builds the brick wall, shouts back and forth at Fortunato and tosses the torch into the niche to see if Fortunato is still alive. THese actions occur after the climax where Montresor surprises Fortunato and chains him to the wall. At that point the suspense over whether Montresor will or will not gain revenge on Fortunato is settled and the falling action indicates that for both the story and the unfortunate Fortunato, it is all downhill from there.

Answer 4

The narrator Montresor describes how, 50 years earlier, he got his revenge on his friend Fortunato for having insulted him. He tells how he tricked Fortunato into going with him into a wine cellar to taste some Amontillado sherry and, after getting him drunk, how he chained him up, built a wall round him and left him to die.

Answer 5

The Rising action for the cask of the amontillado is when Montresor is leading Fortunato down to where he eventually locks him and leaves him there. The falling action is when Montresor is building the wall and they are yelling back and forth at eachother.

Answer 6

The falling action is Montresor building the brick wall, trying to talk to Fortunato in the darkness and then leaving after completing the wall.