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Lifting the lid on Poe's "Oblong Box". (Edgar Allan Poe)
From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 19950922
Author:McMullen, Bonnie Shannon
Indifference to and a lack of interest in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Oblong Box' reflects the defiance of a natural human curiosity to find what is hidden. The story implies that Poe may not have been able to delineate an artistic, personal identity separated from a communal or national identity. The end of the box and image of melting salt implies the end of an abnormal preservation of propriety or stoicism, having an ultimately regenerative and cathartic effect, as of tears.
The general indifference and lack of curiosity with which most readers have reacted to "The Oblong Box" seems to defy a ...
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