Although the anecdote was long, it kept my attention. I wanted to know how he knew where the letter was hidden.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
"The Purloined Letter"
This story is very fascinating. There is the element of mystery, which intrigued me. The letter contains valuable, secret information that will expose a powerful individual. Dublin finds the letter, not exactly hidden, where the police failed to look (because it was along with other letters) and replaces it with a fake letter. He explains how he finds the letter after he is given the reward money, comparing it with a child playing evens or odds. He says that to find "hidden" letter, the person should think like the opponent. In this case, I feel that Dupin, though he stole the letter, has the same mind frame of the Minister. He believes that the Minister is smart enough to hide the letter in a place where no one would consider.
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I found this story fascinating also. One of the best detective stories by Edgar Allen Poe. After searching up and down, Dupin hid it well that he had stolen the letter. Kept me thinking, even though there wasn't that much action, still an attention-getter.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the realtionship bewteen Dupin and the Minister D, esp their mental "kinship," and the connection between that and the analogy of the marble game, should lead you into the deeper thematics of the story
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