SOURCE: "Conflict and Motive in The Cask of Amontillado'," in Poe Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1972, pp. 50-1.
In the following essay, Rocks provides a cultural context for the Catholic-Masonic conflict that informs the plot.
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