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…showed last 75 words of 337 total…Fortunato and Montressor is very kind, even affectionate towards him. He greets Fortunato... "My dear Fortunato, you are luckly met..." The reader that knows Montressor's real intentions notices here that this greeting has another meaning, different from what it would mean if we did not know about Montressor's plan. story to call the readers' attention to the double meaning of words, and for extension, as one of Poe's favourite motifs, the duplicity of human nature.