Montresor never goes into great detail about his reasons for killing Fortunato, however, he claims that he kills Fortunato because of an insult. Montresor states that:
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.
In the story, Montresor seems to have an overly developed sense of pride or honor that requires him to respond to something like a minor insult with murder. After he is insulted by Fortunato, Montresor concocts an elaborate plan in order to redress the wrong. He comes up with a ruse about a rare cask of wine and uses it to lead Fortunato deep into the underground vault under his family estate. Once there, he tricks Fortunato into going into a dead end tunnel, shackles him to a wall, and covers the tunnel with bricks. Why Montresor thinks that this is the appropriate response to an insult, no one knows.
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