【单选题】Before taking his last breath, Fortunato still seems unable to perceive the intention of Montresor, mistaking what Montresor does to him as " a very good joke, indeed — an excellent jest". Why does he...
A.
Fortunato has drunk too much to see his coming death.
B.
Poe intends to use Fortunato's slow comprehension as a foil to the blackness of Montresor 's well-planned revenge.
C.
Fortunato wants to get Montresor's mercy by fooling him this way so that he may free himself from the threshold of death.
D.
It is only Montresor's illusion because Fortunato has been dead when the former builds up the eleven tiers of the stone wall.