SOURCE: "The Cask of Amontillado': Some Further Ironies," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. XI, No. 2, Spring, 1974, pp. 195-96.
In the following essay, Cooney elucidates ironic aspects of the tale from the theological perspective of Roman Catholicism.
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