THE PURLOINED LETTER

The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story that takes s place in Paris. The narrator and C. Augustine Dupin are sitting in a home library when they are visited by their friend who is a policeman Monsieur G. he came to ask for help even though this is a very secret deal and he may loose his job if it were to leak out. The queen had her letter stolen by Minister D and they can’t get a hold of it. The police had searched his house and had no results. The letter seemed to disappear. Dupin and the narrator suggest that maybe this case is much easier that it looks and that what they are looking for may be right in front of their nose. A month goes by and the policeman comes back with absolutely no clues. He informs that the reward was doubled and even if it was tripled there was nothing else he could do. That’s when Dupin tells him to write him a check for fifty thousands and takes out a letter that was missing. We later learn that it was true that the letter was right in front of their noses and they missed it because of that.
I found the last line to be very interesting. Un dessein si funeste, S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, est digne de Thyeste." This is what Dupin wrote in a letter that he left for Minister D. it translates "A plan, if disastrous, if it is not worthy of Atreus, is worthy of Thyestes." This is referring to two brothers who had an ongoing revenge against each other. Maybe there has been something in the past between Dupin and the Minister and that has influenced him to help the policeman in this case in order to get his revenge.