New York University. The story is most appropriate for its reflections on science. This Tale begins almost as a dissertation to a class on what the science of the mind really was. This science of the mind called phrenology .
Scientist determine what the body organs do then decide what they are indeed for.
Whereas the narrator says this is indeed backwards and that the human being sometimes does things just to either hurt himself or others. The first is the narrator wishes to please his audience but has the uncontrollable urge to displease. The second is that procrastination is in itself a perverseness. The third as I mentioned before was to experience the moment of falling off the cliff. The author also suggest that Poe might have been thinking of doing in his step father John Allen so he might inherit his fortunes.