Fortunato previously had more power over Montresor and the entire The Cask of Amontillado is the shifting of power from Fortunato to Montresor and all of this is shown through the wine. One way Poe shows the changing balance of power is through the amount of wine Montresor drinks, one of the best quotes to represent this is when Fortunato and Montresor are walking through the cellar and Montresor pulls out a bottle of wine from a row and writes: " 'Drink,' I said, presenting the wine to him. He raised it to his lips with a lascivious look. He stopped and gave me a familiar nod, while his bells jingled" (181). The jingle of the bells is a nod to the jester costume that Fortunato wears and the jingle of bells as Fortunato drinks symbolizes how he is becoming more and more foolish, the less power he has compared to Montresor. Another example of Poe using wine to show the transfer of power is a few lines below when he writes: "The wine shone in his eyes and the bells jingled. My imagination was warmed by the Medoc. We had passed through long walls of piled up skeletons, with barrels and fists mixed together, in the most remote recesses of the catacombs." (181). Once again Poe uses both wine and the jingle of bells to take advantage of how Fortunato is being deceived. There's also a lot of foreshadowing of her because the walls are full of skeletons, but Fortunato doesn't get to do that.