Edgar Poe's Auguste Dupin

To make a correct conclusion, let's make clear who is a romantic hero? In my opinion, a romantic hero is usually someone innocent and carefree, separate from the masses, and is almost always on some type of journey. And a pioneer is a person who is a person who goes first or does something first. So, was Auguste Dupin a pioneer? My answer is positive. To my mind, Dupin is a significant figure in the …

…unusual, for that is what makes these figures so interesting for the reader. So, the romantic hero of the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was a pioneer of the protagonists of the detective genre. He is the first, he is a "pathfinder". That is why we should be grateful to Edgar Allan Poe for giving us the detective genre and making our lives more interesting, colorful and with a shadow of mystery.