The Purloined Letter Summary - Edgar Allan Poe Plot Diagram
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EXPOSITION
The Prefect of the Paris police goes to see C. August Dupin, a private eye, who recently helped him solve ‘The Murders of Rue Morgue’. His new case is about a stolen letter!
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CONFLICT
A letter was stolen from a powerful lady. The main suspect is Minister D, a man who Dupin has bad blood with.
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RISING ACTION
The prefect searches the minister's apartment and comes up empty. When he returns to see Dupin, the private eye gives the prefect the letter.
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CLIMAX
Plain Sight
Dupin explains how he was able to think like the thief and recover the letter!
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FALLING ACTION
Dupin supplanted the letter with an identical, which reads, “So baneful a scheme, if not worthy of Atreus, is worthy of Thyestes.”
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RESOLUTION
Dupin is able to solve the case and get revenge for a wrong committed against him by the Minister.
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