The Business Man E-Book

Edgar Allan Poe

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

An eccentric narrator proudly explains his "systematic" life as a man of business, recounting a series of bizarre and often absurd ventures he calls professional work. Through his exaggerated sense of order and his dubious schemes, Poe satirizes the idea of respectability, industry, and self-importance, turning the portrait of a "businessman" into a comic critique of greed and pretension.

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The Business Man

Edgar Allan Poe

SYNOPSIS

An eccentric narrator proudly explains his “systematic” life as a man of business, recounting a series of bizarre and often absurd ventures he calls professional work. Through his exaggerated sense of order and his dubious schemes, Poe satirizes the idea of respectability, industry, and self-importance, turning the portrait of a “businessman” into a comic critique of greed and pretension.

Keywords

Greed, Pretension, Order

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The Business Man

Method is the soul of business.—OLD SAYING.

I am a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all. But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who prate about method without understanding it; attending strictly to its letter, and violating its spirit. These fellows are always doing the most out-of-the-way things in what they call an orderly manner. Now here, I conceive, is a positive paradox. True method appertains to the ordinary and the obvious alone, and cannot be applied to the outré. What definite idea can a body attach to such expressions as “methodical Jack o’ Dandy,” or “a systematical Will o’ the Wisp”?