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The narrator in "The Cask of Amontillado" is named Montresor. What is Montresor's trade?

Question 2 options:

He is a painter.

He is a stone mason.

He is an Austrian millionaire.

He makes carriages.

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correct me if i am wrong but ive read this before and Montresors trade is the second option, he is a stone mason.
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Answer:

He is a stone mason.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," the main character Montresor is a mason because he uses bricks and mortar to wall up his enemy alive. Montresor's victim, Fortunato, is a Mason because he identifies himself by gesture and word as member of the Brotherhood of Freemasons:

"He. . .threw the bottle upward with a gesticulation I did not understand.

I looked at him in surprise. He repeated the movement -- a grotesque one.

"You do not comprehend?" he said.

"Not I," I replied.

"Then you are not of the brotherhood."

Montresor, then, pulls out a bricklayer's trowel from under his cloak as proof that he is in fact a "mason."

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