ons done in the physical world. They highlight the point that when an action is complete it does not mean that it is over. Poe uses the complexity of the human mind and occurrences from the everyday world to create two tales that posses characters that share the role of both protagonist and antagonist. Sarah Whitman claims that,Poe anticipates much of what concerned the psychological movement later in the century and has continued to our own day. He writes, of course, before Freud, Jung, or Adler, and thus his vocabulary is not the same. He uses age-old symbols and myths to frame his tales. (Whitman- 78)He maintains an early understanding of the power of the mind and the subconscious, which made the stories, interesting to the public and timeless. With this in mind it is easy to see how Poe created yet another story that deals with human psychology but is presented completely different then we have previously seen. Poe illustrates what can happen when the inner struggle is a long-term battle of self-denial in his story William Wilson. The final Short story of Poe's to examine is William Wilson. William Wilson offers the reader a different sort of story while maintaining the same themes. Poe makes William start off in the same confession like tone like all the previous narrators. His depressed, and melancholy tone helps the reader to picture another solitary man that is trapped in a prison that is guarded by his own personal demons. Everett Edward explains, The story's moral is similar to one of Hawthorne's. Wilson has cut himself off from humanity by his pride; he has committed the Unpardonable Sin. The psychological interpretation is of a man sinking into paranoia. A supernatural interpretation would not work. If we interpret William Wilson in terms of a man at war with his own conscience, then the Hawthorne comparison is an apt one, for in destroying the possibility of that conscience ever governing his life, Wilson cuts...
