SOURCE: "The Bouquet of Poe's Amontillado," in South Atlantic Bulletin, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, March, 1970, pp. 35-40.
In the following essay, Henninger explains how the ending of Poe's story always elicits shock, despite the conclusion's obvious predictability.
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