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This 3 page paper examines one of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter, and discusses what themes it has in common with his poetry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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write what we consider the modern detective story. This paper examines one of those stories, The Purloined Letter, and discusses what themes it has in common with his poetry. Discussion
The device in the story is the fact that a letter has been stolen and subsequently hidden in plain sight. The thief knows that the police will immediately suspect him,
but he also knows that they consider him to be a poet, and therefore, also somewhat careless and sloppy (Poe, 1845). This is their opinion of such people (Poe, 1845).
The thief also knows that the police will predicate their search upon their assumptions of the way such people act; that is, they expect that he will hide the letter
in some ingenious manner, and so they search for it in a similar fashion (Poe, 1845). They disassemble furniture; they examine floorboards; they peer everywhere they can think of, but
they never find the letter-because they are acting on their assumptions about the thiefs behavior (Poe, 1845). Dupin does find the letter by thinking like the thief; it takes him
only one visit to the mans rooms to spot it-its been turned inside out and put in a holder with other cards and papers (Poe, 1845). Dupin employs a man
to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the letter and substitutes one of
his own, successfully solving the case that has baffled the police for months (Poe, 1845). The themes here are the idea that things are most easily hidden when they are
in plain sight; the idea of two major plot devices (the investigation by the police and the one by the detective) running parallel; and perhaps most important, the idea that
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