Foreshadowing In The Purloined Letter

In The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allen Poe uses foreshadowing, conflict, and characterization to the expo that when you are trying with a vigorous effort while searching for something, that what is being sought for is frequently unnoticed because it is buried in the most self-evident places.The letter, which is the object that is difficult to encounter, is right in front of their eyes. In many real life problems many people can’t find happiness but sometimes it’s right in front of them.

Poe utilizes foreshadowing to elucidate where the letter is to be found. During the beginning of the story, Dupin hints that the reason the Prefect is having a troublesome time with the case is because it is too conspicuous. In the offing of the story it is found

Dupin is an intelligent man who knows what he is doing as has logic thinking of knowing where the letter is. He reads the ministers character to know where exactly he hid the letter. Dupin thinks of places that no others would think the letter is. This characterization of Dupin demonstrates that he has knowledge on where the letter is and solves the case. Minister D is a cunning man and genuinely sagacious. By being clever he hides the letter in a very obvious place and the prefect is blindsided by it. He is in the story described as a mathematician and poet by the reason he outmaneuvers the Prefect by planting the letter in a distinguishable place. But later on, Minister D is outsmarted by Dupin, who later finds the letter and replaces it. “You are mistaken; I know him well; he is both. As poet and mathematician, he would reason well; as mere mathematician, he could of at reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect.” This characterization of Minister D portraying him as being a “mathematician and poet” arrays that the letter wouldn’t be in a secluded place because that would be to perceivable but in an area where the letter would be too recognizable to the average