Poe would later incorporate this ability to observe small details in his character C. Auguste Dupin. All of this is a virtuoso performance of the representation of social typicality; it owes something to Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, but there is also something of the moralizing medieval Vice in its parade of degenerates, of depraved women and of social outcasts.
Later on, Poe would utilize his skill at observing minute details in his character C. Auguste Dupin. The entire work is a sophisticated depiction of social norms; it draws inspiration from Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, but also incorporates elements reminiscent of the moralizing Vice of medieval times in its parade of morally flawed individuals.