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Edgar Allan Poe - True Detective

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After Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue, it was clear that Poe possessed the talents of a true detective. In the first novella, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Poe narrated the story in the perspective of an ultra-analytical friend and sidekick to the even more analytical detective, Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin. The intuitive understanding that Poe has of "the analytical  and the understanding that he displays of his detective character is the first piece of evidence that proves the implication that Poe would make a good detective (Poe 3). And even though Dupin and his friend are Poe's creation, it is clear that he created these characters with empathy. When Poe ironically analyzed the analytica in the beginning of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," he proved that he was capable of analyzing a subject the way that a detective would. When Poe narrated his detective novel, he wrote it in the voice of an observant intellectual who showed acute awareness of the different ways people act. When Poe explained his interpretation of Dupin's personality, he analyzed the psychology of "the analytical , similarly to the way that Dupin analyzed the psychology of his suspect. By doing this, Poe proved that he was capable of applying the attributes of a successful detective to his own work, therefore, he too possessed some of the mental capabilities of the prototypical detective. After he explained "the analytical and the ingenious," Poe introduced the illustrious detective, Charlemagne Dupin. In Poe's introduction of Dupin, the narrator described his first interaction with the detective. Further into the scene, the narrator was dumbfounded by Dupin's ability to identify exactly what he was thinking about: "I replied unwittingly, not at first observing (so much had I been absorbed in reflection) the extraordinary manner in which the speaker had chimed in with my meditations. In an instant afterward, I recollected myself, and my astonishment was profound (8). When Dupin explained to the narrator how he was able to do this, he reiterated his analytic observations of the narrator, and logically explained his reasoning. Because Poe created Dupin, he must have had a personal understanding the abilities that a real-life detective needs. Preceding the phenomenal interaction where Dupin appeared to have clairvoyantly read the narrator's mind, the detective had been effort

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