![]() In other words, G- thinks everything he doesn't understand is odd, and he doesn't understand very much, so he thinks that a lot of things are odd. We gave him a hearty welcome for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man, and we had not seen him for several years … had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities." (2) When G- walks in, we get a little more sense of the narrator's personality, which is a little playful but also has a bit of a condescending edge: ![]() No why, but you kind of get the hint that this is just what the two guys do together. This might as well be the lede to a newpaper article: who, what, where, and when. ![]() ![]() Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisieme, No. Even his first sentence give this impression:Īt Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. ![]() In general, he gives the impression of casually telling us a little story with no embellishment and very little of his own personal opinions. The narrator of "The Purloined Letter" doesn't give us much to work with. Casual, Condescending, Playful, Confidential ![]()
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