Wow, what a story I did not see the end coming. I knew he was planning on killing him but I thought he might shoot him or hit him over the head. I never dreamed he would bury him alive inside a wall. The story was hard to follow mostly because of the language, I think it was Italian. I did not understand all the bones. Were these men in the mob? Obviously, these men had been friends at some point, or at least on the same team. Fortunato seems to trust him; why else would he go down into the tunnel. Even at the end when he only had one brick to place, Fortunato thought it was some kind of joke. I think Fortunato may have gotten the last laugh. This man was waiting for Fortunato to beg for his life so he could get some comfort in killing him. He enjoys listen to him struggle with the chains, he even stops his work to listen. He looks over the wall a couple of times to see if he can see the disbelief on Fortunato face. I do not know if this is what Edgar Allan Poe wanted the reader to take away from this story, but what I took away is this man was upset with Fortunato for insulting him and nothing was going to stop him from getting revenge on Fortunato. Nothing was going to stop him from making Fortunato die a slow and painful death.
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