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A review by cspiteri
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt by Edgar Allan Poe
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
This was actually painful to get through. The longer it went on the more I wanted to just stop reading it.
The idea of using an actual murder mystery and actually trying to solve it is not a bad idea but Poe could have done a much better job at the structure of this story (also the prose in this story was extremely weak for a Poe story). I do not know why he choose to have so much of the story be cut outs from actual newspapers, that just repeated information, was useless or was information Dupin could have got himself instead of just over-analyzing other peoples facts. And yes that ending is atrocious, I know it is based on a real murder but most of the point of a murder mystery is the ending and to just deprive us of that was not a good choice.
The idea of using an actual murder mystery and actually trying to solve it is not a bad idea but Poe could have done a much better job at the structure of this story (also the prose in this story was extremely weak for a Poe story). I do not know why he choose to have so much of the story be cut outs from actual newspapers, that just repeated information, was useless or was information Dupin could have got himself instead of just over-analyzing other peoples facts. And yes that ending is atrocious, I know it is based on a real murder but most of the point of a murder mystery is the ending and to just deprive us of that was not a good choice.