The Murders In The Rue Morgue By Edgar Allan Poe

What is analytical thinking? Analytical thinking is a skill or in which an individual has the ability to examine and break down facts and thoughts into both their weaknesses and strengths. It includes thinking in thoughtful, being clever with giving judgments, in order to solve problems, analyze data, and to use information. In the short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author begins the story by comparing the analytical mind to the game of chess. Throughout the story, it is best understood that analytical ability wins over ingenuity because cleverness often becomes too unrealistic or over-imaginative which makes it hard to solve complex problems but analytical thinking provides you with the easier solution to
The narrator says that “Dupin seemed singularly interested in the progress of this affair---at least so I judged from his manner, for he made no comments.” In this statement, we can say that Dupin is already on the task of using his abilities but not on top the case. Yet, when there was a “announcement that Le Bon had been imprisoned, that he asked” his friend’s opinion regarding to the murders because the evening paper showed that the police have no way of solving the crime, but arrested Le Bon simply because he was the last individual to see the murdered alive although “nothing appeared to criminate him”. Dupin’s “peculiar analytical ability” begins to kick in as he begins to see that investigators and policies are no use in solving this crime. Dupin plans to examine the crime scene with him and they do get permission to examine. After examining, Dupin tells the narrator that he saw something strange and odd. He says that because the case is complex, it is actually easy to solve. Then Dupin explains fully systematically and in details of his analysis of the murders, the means of entrance and exit, and the ability that it would take to complete what had been done. One of this statements is that “replaced the nail and regarded it attentively. A person passing out through this window might have reclosed it, and the spring would have caught---but the nail
He may have traced it to the chamber; but, under the agitating circumstances which ensued, he could never have re-captured it...I could not pretend to make them intelligible to the understanding of another. We will call them guesses then, speak of them as such. If the Frenchman in question is indeed, as I suppose, innocent of this atrocity, this advertisement which I left last night, upon your return home, at the office of ‘Le Monde,’ a paper devoted to the shipping interest...will bring him to our residence.” As a reader, I have hoped that Dupin is right and I trusted him. He made an excellent prediction with a use of his analytical skills and was very clever by making the announcement. We can see that his predictions are correct and we can also see that he uses emotions as his reasoning of