Liar Liar

Can you tell when someone is lying? Can you tell when someone is faking his or her personality? There are so many people who cannot be trusted because they constantly lie and are only nice to get things they want. Montresor is that person.
Montresor is quite the interesting character. Throughout the short story he was deceitful, but cunning. He tricks Fortunato in many ways such as luring Fortunato to the catacombs. I believe most of the time throughout the story that Montresor is not telling the truth.
Right in the beginning, Montresor vowed for revenge and most characters who vowed for revenge cannot be trusted and revenge is usually associated as something as bad. Montresor vowed for revenge for Fortunato, but he was being a phony to Fortunato by complementing him and acting as if he was glad that he met him. Phonies cannot be trusted because one cannot if they are actually telling the truth or not.
“My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc” line 51. Being intoxicated can severely disarrange one’s actions. Montresor became intoxicated by drink some French wine. So anything after line 51, Montresor’s words cannot be trusted. He was drunk and everything he said is probably a lie. Also Montresor is probably lying when he said Fortunato was a connoisseur of wine because most connoisseur of wine would take their time to taste the wine rather than like Fortunato who drank the wine quickly. This part already shows that Montresor is a liar.
People who feel no remorse cannot be trusted. As Montresor finally finished up putting Fortunato into the wall Montresor said “My heart grew sick; it was the dampness of the catacombs that made it so”. Montresor felt no remorse from killing someone. Murders lie constantly to get away from justice making them not trustworthy.