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.
Poe would later utilize this ability to notice minute details in his character C. Auguste Dupin. The entire piece is a nuanced representation of social norms; it shares similarities with Dickens’s Sketches by Boz, but also contains elements of the moralizing Vice of medieval times in its portrayal of socially marginalized groups.