An unfortuante person who has suffered injustice or cruel treatment in childhood can sometimes grow up to inflict pain on others, but this can only ever explain their evil actions, not justify or condone them. We do not find out if anything has happened to Montressor that far back, only reading about some sort of imagined slight that happened more recently. However Montressor's characteristics come across as vindictive, analytical, narcissistic and methodical character traits. Also, he is obsessive as we see by his careful calculations about the interment at the end. Perhaps he has become over-sensitized to matters affronting his self-esteem, and that is why he responded in such an over the top way to a small insult.
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