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A MAN OF CROWD-SHORT STORY

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AMIR ZESHAN
AMIR ZESHAN

The narrator observes an old man in a coffee house who captures his attention with his strange, terror-filled face. He follows the man throughout the crowded streets of the city as night falls, trying to understand more about him. Though the man seems comfortable in crowds, he appears confused when they thin out. The narrator chases the man for over 24 hours as he moves through different areas of the city and its suburbs, but is never able to learn his identity, concluding he is a man like a secret book that does not permit himself to be read.

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Short story-THE MAN OFCROWD This is a famous short story of Edgar Allan Poe (Jan 19, 1809-October 7, 1894).He was an inventor of detective fiction in America. The Man of the Crowd is a mysterious story.Writer tells us that some books don¡¯t permit themselves to be read. Like-wise some people are also like secret books, they don¡¯t permit themselves to be read. In this story narrator follows a fellow for almost 24 hours. He was a man of crowd and knows the art of hiding himself from the people. The narrator is sitting near the window of D¡­Coffee House. He recently recovers from serious disease. Now he is enjoying himself. The narrator observes the crowd, the crowd contains different sorts of people in it. There are senior and junior clerks, beggars, teachers, lawyers, soldiers etc. The narrator also notices porters, drunkards, young girls and well-painted ladies there. Soon he sees an old man, some sixty five or seventy years of age. It is a strange face which captures the attention of narrator. He follows the old man. He observes terror, malice, despair and vast mental power at his face. Now he wants to know more about him. He is a very feeble and short man. Now it is night. Suddenly old man disappears in fog. They narrator chases him into cross streets, squares and by ¨Cstreets. The old always feels comfortable in crowd whenever the crowd is thinner he looks confused. Narrator chases him throughout the city. Suddenly he changes the route and enters into the suburb. It was ¡°a world of poverty and crime¡­an unhealthy world¡±. Then he comes to the bar. Then he again becomes a man of crowd. At last, in the evening of second day the narrator surrenders himself and left the chasing. He concludes that he was like a book that did not permit itself to be read. In crux, we can say that;
A man of crowd is a reflection of our own shadows. We chase ourselves throughout the life.

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  • 1. Short story-THE MAN OFCROWD This is a famous short story of Edgar Allan Poe (Jan 19, 1809-October 7, 1894).He was an inventor of detective fiction in America. The Man of the Crowd is a mysterious story.Writer tells us that some books don¡¯t permit themselves to be read. Like-wise some people are also like secret books, they don¡¯t permit themselves to be read. In this story narrator follows a fellow for almost 24 hours. He was a man of crowd and knows the art of hiding himself from the people. The narrator is sitting near the window of D¡­Coffee House. He recently recovers from serious disease. Now he is enjoying himself. The narrator observes the crowd, the crowd contains different sorts of people in it. There are senior and junior clerks, beggars, teachers, lawyers, soldiers etc. The narrator also notices porters, drunkards, young girls and well-painted ladies there. Soon he sees an old man, some sixty five or seventy years of age. It is a strange face which captures the attention of narrator. He follows the old man. He observes terror, malice, despair and vast mental power at his face. Now he wants to know more about him. He is a very feeble and short man. Now it is night. Suddenly old man disappears in fog. They narrator chases him into cross streets, squares and by ¨Cstreets. The old always feels comfortable in crowd whenever the crowd is thinner he looks confused. Narrator chases him throughout the city. Suddenly he changes the route and enters into the suburb. It was ¡°a world of poverty and crime¡­an unhealthy world¡±. Then he comes to the bar. Then he again becomes a man of crowd. At last, in the evening of second day the narrator surrenders himself and left the chasing. He concludes that he was like a book that did not permit itself to be read. In crux, we can say that;
  • 2. A man of crowd is a reflection of our own shadows. We chase ourselves throughout the life.