Fortunato dressed the part he was set up to play in The Cask of Amontillado.  He wears the symbolism like a bullseye on his back. Poe dresses up the victim of the story as a fool, a jester. It symbolizes Fortunato’s fate to be the one taken advantage of quite plainly, especially looking back on it. He puts his blind trust in Montressor, which proves to be his undoing and seals his fate. Fourtunato’s loud dress also offsets what black garb Montressor is wearing,. Starting off drunk and literally dressed as a fool, Fortunato was anything but fortunate in this story from the moment it began.