The Use Of Tropes In Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter

In Edgar Allan Poe’s story, The Purloined Letter, Poe used tropes to hint at where the letter was hidden. He had the characters using words like ‘simple’, ‘odd’, and ‘plain’ multiple times in the through the story. Because of this, his readers were shocked at the end because it was so simple. In a way, the moral of this story was proved to be true because the reader was also thinking the letter has to be hidden in hard places. The Purloined Letter was about a man who hid a very important letter. The letter was trying to be found by the police because it could involve illegal matters. This letter was found by the narrator’s friend who was not in the police force. This friend found the letter and used it for revenged. The words came together to tell the story when Dupin to his tale of his childhood games. Poe created these tropes in the beginning so that his readers could get a sense of what was about to happen. This gave a flashback to the conversation in the
Because of the usage of words like ‘simple’, ‘odd’ and few others, his readers understood the purpose of The Purloined Letter. The purpose was that many people are looking in the places that they would hid it. They were not thinking in the mind of the person that has it, and where he would have hidden it. People were stuck in their own mindset and did not allow room for any new ideas of others to come in. This was found with the conversation between the narrator, Dupin, and Monsieur G—. In this dialogue, the narrator and Dupin hinted at that the letter was hidden in plain sight. “You looked among D—‘s papers, of course, and into the books of the library” (Poe 729). Monsieur G- had it in his mindset that as simple as the letter was, it had to be tucked away in a safe and hard place. Because of this words being repeated multiple times, it was easier for the reader patch together the conversations, letters, and characters