"The Scarlet Ibis," by James Hurst and "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allen Poe have a lot of similarities and have a basis for literary comparison. Both are about conflicts between the protagonist and another character. In this case, Montresor and Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado  while in "The Scarlet Ibis , its Doodle and his brother. Both story may have a lot of similarities, but they also has differences. So comparing the two protagonist, ”Montresor and the Brother ” both killed another character from the story, however, the other did it intentionally and the other did it unintentionally. Also, both shows pride, however one of them show a destructive pride and the other, beneficial pride. .First and foremost, both stories are alike because the protagonist in both stories kills another character, however, in "The Cask of Amontillado , the killing that takes place is intentional while in "The Scarlet Ibis, the killing takes place is unintentional. Montresor kills Fortunato because he seeks revenge against him. The reason Montresor seeks retaliation against Fortunato is because he commits an intolerable attack, which is insulting Montresor. In the statement by Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado  that says "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could; but he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge , proves that there's no way Montresor would not lure Fortunato in an underground cellar because of the Fortunato's insult to Montresor. Once they get in the cellar, Montresor chains Fortunato up without any food or water. He then begins to mortar Fortunato in, leaving him to die. He kept Fortunato's death case 50 years so it means that he did not care about him at all. In "The Scarlet Ibis  the narrator, which is Doodle's brother, unintentionally kills his brother. In the last part of the short story, the Brother says, "finally, I went back [, running in the storm to Doodle] and found him hud