Perhaps he wanted to relieve his depression by literally burying it, and the defense mechanism called "sublimation" was used to convert his harmful desires into safe actions, such as writing. His alcoholism also shows this because he takes it due to the higher level of depression to relieve the symptoms. Another psychological issue that emerges in the writing is the description of revenge evolving from pride and envy. This story is a mirror of his personality, in which the character of Montressor was so absorbed in the thought of taking revenge on his victim that he did not even define the precise reason for his revenge. The idea of ​​murdering someone just out of your own arrogance and resentment reminds us of the time when the first person came to earth. In her article, Renee states that when the thought of revenge accumulates in an individual's brain, it forces him into madness and does not tolerate presenting a second thought to him. The first sentence of the story, “Fortunato's thousand insults I had borne as best I could, but when he dared to insult me ​​I swore revenge”, clearly describes the entire theme of the story as a revenge deeply rooted in the mind of Montresor” which it is an absolute representation of the punishment that occurs due to arrogance and jealousy. The author sees himself as a superior individual and was a victim of a superiority complex which is quite visible through the sentences he wrote in the story where Montressor expresses superiority as he showed his victim as a foolish person by attributing a strange physical appearance to him and the attire in which he described his dress code of “striped tight-fitting suit and the head was topped with a conical cap and bells.”