The Cask Of Amontillado And The Short Happy Life Of...

Between the stories of â€Å"The Cask of Amontillado† by Edgar Poe, and â€Å"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber† by Ernest Hemingway, the authors are able to control these stories through the use of irony, defined as a â€Å"contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. This can be a difference between the surface meaning of something that is said and the underlying meaning† (http://www.literarydevices.com/irony/). Within these short stories, each author has been able to bring the reader into the story by giving them the opportunity to endure the thoughts and feelings of individual characters which include the taste for revenge, and the bitter truth of a marriage. The way irony is placed into the stories has†¦show more content†¦This is seen during the conversation, â€Å"As you are engaged, I am on my way to Luchesi. If anyone has a critical turn, it is he. He will tell me——† â€Å"Luchesi cannot tell Amontillado from Sherry.† â€Å"And yet some fools will have it that his taste is a match for your own.† â€Å"Come, let us go.† â€Å"Whither?† â€Å"To your vaults.† â€Å"My friend, no; I will not impose upon your good nature. I perceive you have an engagement. Luchesi——† â€Å"I have no engagement;—come.† â€Å"My friend, no. It is not the engagement, but the severe cold with which I perceive you are afflicted. The vaults are insufferably damp. They are encrusted with nitre.† â€Å"Let us go, nevertheless. ...† of which they share on page 4, starting with Montresor speaking. This piece of verbal irony becomes very important because what the reader knows, and what Fortunato knows, are two completely opposite things. The reader or the audience Poe has written to, understands that Montresor is wanting to give nothing away to his opponent in the revenge that is about to take place,  "It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will. I continued, as was my wont, to smile