SOURCE: "Poe's The Cask of Amontillado'," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. IV, No. 1, Fall, 1966, pp. 57-69.
In the following essay, Rea interprets Montresor's actions in terms of Poe's theory of perversity.
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