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William Wilson

        I did not enjoy the reading of William Wilson, by Edgar Allan Poe. I usually do enjoy Poe’s short stories, I liked The House of Usher, A Tale of Two Hearts and others but William Wilson was too wordy and hard for me to get into. It was confusing and hard to keep up with his character. You can defiantly tell that this is a doppelgänger.

William Wilson is struggling with an inner ego that he discovers when he goes off to school at Elizabethan house. At first Wilson is not sure how he feels about this other “Wilson”, he has ill feelings towards him and feels as though he may fear him (with good reason considering the end), but cannot hate him yet. Wilson Struggles with this alter ego and explains how he tries to attack the other Wilson and plays a number of practical jokes on him but he is never able to trick him. Wilson and his ego “Wilson” are not in the Elizabethan house alone there are eighteen or twenty other people all living there and teachers but it never says how the others perceive him.