... are meant to be a shadow of one character or their doppelganger, is not immediately obvious but is merely hinted toward in the final lines, "I feel I'm being watched, and sometimes I hear, a man's voice, but nothing is done, and I have been waiting for days." These words echo in the mind of the reader as the opening lines are remembered in which, "A man has been standing, in front of my ... , only he. "Yet this superiority -- even this equality -- was in truth acknowledged by no one but myself." Soon after Poe brings the reader to the conclusion of the conflict between Wilson and his dopp...

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