Strong Conclusion

"Poe has carefully crafted a Chinese box that builds outward from Dupin’s paradigm of children’s games, to Minister D’s theft by deception, to Dupin’s duplication of that deception, to Dupin’s scam of Parisienne society, and ultimately to Poe’s attempt to fool the majority of readers"(Blythe 315). The author presents the reader an interesting spool of angles to investigate, after reading "The Purloined Letter". Following the identification of Poe’s psychological influence of the story through character representation and transformation, the reader can realize the author’s consciousness altercations. The stage of consciousness in Poe’s art draws the aspect of consciousness placement into the situation.

If Poe was in a state of destruction then one could conclude that Dupin was destroying himself from being Minister D, in order to rid him of the darker consciousness. Then the possibility of becoming a victim of full circle comes into the situation. If Poe is searching for a new sense of being, then by achieving new being, he proceeds to discover yet another consciousness, through the destruction of the old. Poe could then also be in the state of a new inner consciousness, but once more the regeneration process concludes a cyclical nature. However, the nature of Poe could be in relation to the ending Greek myth quote. "—Un dessein si funeste, S’il n’est digne d’Atree, est kigne de Thyeste"(Poe 783). Meaning that Poe within his mind cunningly with much wit conquered the other in progressive form, in such an achieving manner that the other was brutally vanquished. This struggle within the author presents a truly clever and deceptive hero, which amidst the darkness plays a game of simplicity, but one which many are duped astride from due to Poe’s realization of his opponent the reader. "Poe suggests a very simple solution to his tale, but one he is certain will catch those not easily caught because of its simplicity"(Blythe 315). The simplicity of the story is that of secrecy in which the reader is overwhelmed with the mystery itself that they are blinded by the inner hidden aspect underneath. That mystery being the mind of Edgar Allen Poe.