When the Minister insulted him in Vienna years before the crime presently in question, Dupin promised to repay the slight. He cunningly analyzes the external facts of the crime, but he is also motivated by his hunger for revenge. Dupin must function as an independent detective because his mode of investigation thrives on intuition and personal cunning, which cannot be institutionalized in a traditional police force. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook.
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His highly creative, observant and analytical mind allows him to perceive where the police are going wrong, and stay one step ahead of the criminals. He loves of riddles, mathematics and poetry, and the Prefect mocks him a poet despite the fact that the Prefect is hopeless to solve the cases without Dupin's aid. He has a strange sense of humor and very eccentric habits his love of nighttime for example. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:.
The Murders in the Rue-Morgue Quotes. Related Themes: The Gothic Style. We get the sense the Dupin might not be the most social or extraverted of characters. Neither Dupin nor the narrator seem like they belong to a book club, in other words. Dupin doesn't exactly hate other people — after all, he's willing to live with the narrator and, we can't help but notice, on the narrator's dime.
But what he likes, way more than directly interacting with others, is looking at them. He and the narrator never go out during the day, but they love to walk around the Parisian streets at night, checking out people around them and guessing who they are and where they're from.
Why does Dupin keep so separate from the rest of humanity? We think the key to solving this puzzle lies is in his interaction with the narrator. Consider the moments when Dupin suddenly interrupts the silence between them to say exactly what the narrator's thinking, out of the blue. He loves watching faces and body language to make deductions, and he values the surfaces of things as the best source of clues for what's going underneath them.
It's this trait that makes Dupin a great detective. He can look beyond obvious clues that confuse the police like the four thousand francs on the floor, which the police think have to provide the motive, because who doesn't want lots of money?
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