Question

Why did the crowd follow the narrator?

Answer 1

Answer:

‘The Man of the Crowd’ is one of the shorter short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe (who pioneered the short story form when it was still an emerging force in nineteenth-century magazines and periodicals). Written in 1840, the story is deliciously enigmatic and, in some ways, prefigures later fiction, including modernism. You can read ‘The Man of the Crowd’ here before proceeding to our summary and analysis below.

Answer 2

Answer:

44 Winchester, a weapon much too small to kill an animal of that size, in hopes that the noise from the rifle would startle the elephant. When the narrator finally receives a more powerful rifle from an orderly, a crowd begins to follow him.

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